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If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

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Danny Boyle
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: October 20
Film Director
Film Producer
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Television Producer
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There are three huge, titanic, space movies which if you ever make a film [about space] you cannot avoid. You may want to avoid them but you cannot. I've never known a genre like it where you are dictated to by these films, 2001, Alien, and Tarkovsky's Solaris.
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If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.
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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.
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