If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.
— Danny Boyle
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.
I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.
I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.
It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.
I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.
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.
I've always wanted to do a space movie.
Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.
To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.
I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
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.
I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.
I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.
