Danny Boyle Quotes

Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

When I have a new idea, I'm charged up and want to start the film immediately, but I simply don't have the patience to wait for stars.

There's so many people involved in making a film.

Any script, even like The Founder, if it's something that I imagine myself playing this character or that character - any of the characters, basically - how do we flesh these characters out to be good enough to have amazing actors that come in that make it really difficult for them to say no? Even though I'm not right for any of those parts, that's just kind of how we go about it.

In the film industry you never really know if all the various ingredients will come together - sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. As an actor, you don't have much control over those things. It's a director's medium in that sense. All you can really do is minimise the risks of being involved in something that might not work and look for something that also suits you.

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.

I just think I love the process of making films. It's not tortuous for me at all. I love being with my crew. I love actors. There's a joy to the process.

Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

My own personal process with movies is to develop the characters with the actors and, when I've done that properly, you can't imagine anyone else, but that actor, playing that part.

The formula for a successful film is simple: good script, good direction, a dedicated cast and a fantastic crew. If you have all of these elements then the rest will fall into place.

If you're producing a movie you're involved in every aspect of the movie and that can be daunting and then going and doing a movie where you're just an actor for hire, and you can kind of sit back and giggle where you can see somebody sitting over there wasting time and wasting money.

I never watched a frame of the film until it was finished.

I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.

With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.

In the business of acting, those are the actors that make the trains run on time, you know? There's nothing without them.

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

Casting the right actor for the right part is some unspoken thing between the two of you to communicate.

I really enjoy the process of making movies. The only thing that really concerns me is working with great directors and actors, and that is fun and exciting.

You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, because that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.

Bringing any movie together is a minor miracle.

I don't know of an actor that the Coen brothers would come to and say, "Hey, I've got a movie for you to be in, if you want to do it," that would say, "No." That's the truth.

Film is a collaborative business: bend over.

When you're dealing with Hollywood people, it creates a tight, tense atmosphere through the whole thing. And I don't like to work in that kind of atmosphere. I like to make my movies in a kind of relaxed atmosphere.