Danny Boyle Quotes

You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.

There are many applications for which film is going to be better, for a very long time.

It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a career in a really prominent special effects house, so he's still doing it. We just started messing around with a camera.

I learned on film at NYU. I was probably the last generation that was analog. Anyone who was a year younger than me, it was probably all digital.

Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!

I've always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just show me different parts of the world and people. So when I was about six, I decided that that was what I wanted to do: make movies.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.

Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.

Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.

Arachnophobia' was one of the first films I did major effects for.

Up until the middle to late '60s, it was a choice to film in black-and-white or color. But then television became so vital to a film's finance, and television won't show black-and-white. So that killed it off, really.

Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.

You always learn something about movies. Directing or acting, there's always something new. It's the technological thing; there's always something to learn.

I was just like, "I want to make a decent 2-D movie." I was so worried that, instead of being a decent 2-D movie, it would have been a bad 3-D one.

I make movies on the subjects that excite me.

Our cinema is star-based, while Hollywood is script-based.