Danny Boyle

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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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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.
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 always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it more, but you don't really.
I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.
I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'
I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.
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.
Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.
I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.
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.

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