Danny Boyle Quotes

Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.

I just hope that my films will survive me.

I've really been blessed to have these roles in movies that will last forever.

After 20 years and 250 mainstream films, I thought I should have in my library at least 50 films, films that will be talked about when I am no more.

I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.

'Stand and Deliver' has been the most successful thing I have done in my life. So many people have seen it. There was really no need for me to do anything else.

Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I've done with Almodovar.

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them.

I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.

I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me occasionally. It just makes me feel old.

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness

Elvis' songs will always be there, and I hope mine will be after I'm gone.

I'm proud to have been in some of the films that continue to be a special part of people's lives.

When you do a good film, it will remain forever.

I don't want to be part of films that are easily forgotten.

The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time.

You can always make a good film but for it to be successful, you need God's blessing.

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.

Everyone thinks that Fight Club is a very important and successful film, but it was a massive box-office failure. Massive. It was a big flop by any commercial-release standard. And it's been a huge hit on DVD. Everything that movie has become has been on DVD. So you can't stake your sense of creative success on this whole box-office-performance matrix, because if you do, you're going to be disappointed most of the time.

You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.

You don't need shock value things to make a movie successful.

I've always thought of the audience. I just want to entertain the audience. That's what it's about: what's good for the movie, what's best for the movie, what's best for the audience.

There are things that are happening way earlier than that when it comes to someone deciding whether they're going to spend x amount of millions of dollars on a movie. I want $100 million success. The moviegoer is the person I'm more interested in than the Academy.

There are many directors in the middle range who've made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who've had some successes and some failures. I suppose my life would be smoother if I wasn't almost totally enamored of the latter category.