Danny Boyle Quotes

Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.' I'd like to reach a point where I no longer bullshit myself. I think that's the natural human condition - to lie to yourself. Because the truth is painful.

I can say I have become far more open about what I believe.

You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

If there were a being in the world whose eyes could look into other people's hearts, very few men or women would be able to face up to it.

We tap into something when we're honest about what's going on in our lives.

Facts make you face stuff about yourself you'd rather not see.

Start telling the truth now and never stop. Begin by telling the truth to yourself about yourself. Then tell the truth to yourself about someone else. Then tell the truth about yourself to another. Then tell the truth about another to that other. Finally, tell the truth to everyone about everything. These are the Five Levels Of Truth Telling. This is the five-fold path to freedom.

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.

People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.

It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

I'm a very open person, very self-deprecating. I accept my flaws.

I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.