English - Director | October 20, 1956 -
A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.
Danny Boyle
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I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church.
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You know what actors are like; they moisturize every night. They're frozen in time.
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I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.
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I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.
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I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.
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The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.
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I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.
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I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.
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There's lots of things that can be solved with cash.
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For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.
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I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.
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