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Danny Boyle Biography

Daniel Francis Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is an English director, producer, screenwriter and theatre director, known for his work on films including Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, and Steve Jobs. His debut film Shallow Grave won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. The British Film Institute ranked Trainspotting the 10th greatest British film of the 20th century. Boyle's 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire, the most successful British film of the decade, was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won eight, including the Academy Award for Best Director. He also won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Director. Boyle was presented with the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award at the 2008 Austin Film Festival, where he also introduced that year's AFF Audience Award Winner Slumdog Millionaire.

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Come a crisis, we want other people.

Come, Crisis, People, Want

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.

Ambition, Content, Equation, Perfect, Story, Successful

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.

Awards, Ego, Problem, Stained, Stuff

Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time is over. They find you out and send you packing.

Compromise, Important, Judgment, Mixtures, Moment, Particular

Clearly, you can think back and see that a character has had enormous odds stacked against him and has to overcome them. It's usually a guy, I'm afraid. But then you're setting up a new movie you have amnesia about these meetings, when you've discussed it more analytically.

Character, Odds, Overcome, See, Thinking

I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.

Anymore, Catholic, Practice, Strict

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.

Cunning, Directors, Like, Looks, Scared, Trying

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

Extraordinary, Extraordinary Things, Families, Family, Full, India

Basically, actors arrive in a bubble. They have a little sealed bubble around them and it's basically [comprised of] their agents, their last film, their next film, their press agent, and their per diems - all these things, they cocoon themselves with and you have to puncture that bubble on each of them to make them be in your film.

Actors, Agent, Agents, Bubble, Cocoons, Press

I always felt it is not good if you feel like you would know how to do something. I've made mistakes of telling people: I know how to do this. And it should feel dangerous. That is the only way to stay alert, to keep the adrenaline running.

Good, Like, Mistake, People, Running, Telling

It's interesting, the worse things get in cities, the tougher that cities get, the more brutal the humor is. The tougher things people face, the darker the sense of humor gets and I find that incredibly optimistic.

Cities, Incredibly, Optimistic, People, Tougher, Worse

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. 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.

Hatred, Imagination, Locked, Majority

What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.

Giving, Minor, Temporary, Use, Vanity, Watches

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.

Bond, Book, Kids, Loved, Reading, Watching

The great thing about space films generally, with the exception of Apollo 13, is that big stars tend not to work in space and I think that's because space is an equaliser. It makes everyone the same really and suits an ensemble cast and actors who are prepared to work with each other.

Equaliser, Space, Stars, Tend, Thing, Thinking

You can do anything you like - really - but this Sci-Fi is absolutely disciplined, it's Zen, you have to be absolutely focused in an area. You have to zone into an area and you then you can achieve when you get there. It's really weird!

Achieve, Area, Like, Really Weird, Sci Fi

Once, a French journalist told me that all my films are the same. I said, 'Excuse me? I work hard to make them different. ' What she meant was that in my films there is a character that faces insurmountable odds, and they overcome them. But I thought that might be true, but you need certain factors for drama, and you need to overcome them.

Character, Drama, Hard Work, Insurmountable, Said, Same

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

Animal, Granted, Important, Life, Sun, Take

You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

Tell, Wrong, Life

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

Black And White, Next, Celluloid, White, Black

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