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Danny Boyle
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: October 20
Film Director
Film Producer
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Television Producer
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Lancashire
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Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.
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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.
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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.
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Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors are controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally work on are very controlling constructs.
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One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'
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Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.
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I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get a chance.
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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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But interestingly Star City's technology is all 1970s - still. In fact, it's alarming because you think, You're not going to send someone up into space in something that old, are you? But it works and it always has worked and it doesn't fail and it's incredibly reliable.
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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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I don't want to make pompous, serious films I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
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It's a nice way to put the focus back on this simple act... if someone creates you.
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It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it you're bound to.
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I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Although the moment that it happens might be terribly sad and moving, five minutes later, if you're asked to remember that person, you go, Oh right, yeah, yeah! 'Cause you're just moving forward.
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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.
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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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