A biography for Danny Boylehasn’t been written yet.
“I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.”
“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.”
“I've always wanted to do a space movie.”
“I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.”
“If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.”
“I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.”
“I love cities.”
“I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.”
“Come a crisis, we want other people.”
“The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.”
“I'm not a 'Star Wars' geek.”
“As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.”
“It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.”
“Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.”
“I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.”
“That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.”
“When they're good, there is nothing like a big film.”
“You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.”
“You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.”
“I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.”