Danny Boyle Want Quotations

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

If I was American, I think I'd live in New York, because I like that East Coast mentality. There's nothing wrong with Hollywood. If you want to be a big time filmmaker, you should go to Hollywood.

There are three huge, titanic, space movies which if you ever make a film [about space] you cannot avoid. You may want to avoid them but you cannot. I've never known a genre like it where you are dictated to by these films, 2001, Alien, and Tarkovsky's Solaris.

Come a crisis, we want other people.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films.

We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story.

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.