Danny Boyle Quotes

I'd always thought of myself as an open-minded person. I had no patience with anyone who put down other kids because of their race, religion, or sexuality. But that's just one kind of open-mindedness. There's another kind, too, the kind that's willing to see people for who they really are and admit when you were wrong about them. That's the part I still need to work on.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.

I could be less impatient with people. I sometimes judge by impressions.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.

Go and experience life the way that someone else might experience it. Maybe you'll find meaning in a different corner of your brain. The fact that it changed doesn't negate the fact that it ever mattered.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

If you come from a place of love, and you're not saying, 'I'm better than you,' that's one thing that allows you to talk about different ethnicities. It's almost like laughing with each other.

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

Travel teaches tolerance.

I always learn a lot when I do so. You know, when you step out of your comfort zone and even your cynical zone, and open yourself up to what other people might experience and why they do so.

I enjoy learning about other people. I really didn't understand that until 'Moonlight.'

I had to adapt to other worlds, and that helped to educate me that we are all basically the same.

I just tell young people to find their way. Keep your eyes open. Keep your ears open and keep your heart open.

I've learned a lot. Being more compassionate.

I don't really judge myself, I guess. I don't really judge other players.

We're so immersed in ourselves at home, but when you're travelling, it's important to be open.

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges.