If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you... by Danny Boyle

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

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I think women assess time passage much better than men - because of their biological clocks - and they are much more realistic about measuring out time, whereas men tend to hang onto things. Women acknowledge the biology of their time, and dance through the beat of that drum...whereas men just drum.

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The perfect equation is form equals content. The style of the film reflects the story, and that's what you're always aiming for. You're not always necessarily successful at it, but that's the ambition that you're trying to do.

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I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that ha... by Danny Boyle

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

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The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

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I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

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I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the r... by Danny Boyle

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

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I tend to score with songs from Western pop music. by Danny Boyle

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

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Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondn... by Danny Boyle

Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.

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Most films that I do, whether successful or not, just fade away. They have their moment in the sun, then they are gone. 'Trainspotting' did not, and especially with journalists. So whenever I launched a new film, I'd end up talking about 'Trainspotting.'

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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.

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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.

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Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

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I find it difficult enough being called "Mr. Boyle," which as I a... by Danny Boyle

I find it difficult enough being called "Mr. Boyle," which as I age I'm increasingly called.

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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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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.

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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.

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Everybody knows Aaron Sorkin's scripts. There's a huge amount of lines. There's a huge amount of interchange. You gotta do a lot of learning to be able to get it up to pace.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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