Danny Boyle

“I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. People are blogging your endings from their cinema seats.”

“Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.”

“Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it.”

“There's lots of things that can be solved with cash.”

“To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.”

“I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.”

“People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear.”

“I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.”

“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.”

“I am a sci-fi fan.”

“If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.”

“The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.”

“I trained in the theatre.”

“If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.”

“Although computer chips now are thinner, they're more powerful, they're not as reliable. You'd harvest computer chips from the 1980s from all around the world because they're reliable.”

“My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.”

“Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.”

“I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.”

“Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.”

“I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.”