Danny Boyle Quotes

A great director is someone who makes you feel like you're moving forward.

Fans want to see a story with characters, and they want to see a story.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.

Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

Television is so neat; I grew up doing theater, and I've done a bit of film. I know I'm stating the obvious, but it's a unique storytelling form in that it's able to constantly evolve.

I love wrestling, and I love telling a story to the audience.

I never made a clear-cut in my mind between theatre and film, as I always felt that at the heart of both of them is storytelling and acting.

You want, whenever you're telling a story, to have a certain amount of range, and you want to be able to take the audience on that ride with you.

You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

It doesn't matter how beautifully a film is photographed. The acting tells your story. It's what people relate to. If you don't believe the characters, it doesn't work.

If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.

I kind of got lost down a road of TV and film, so it's great to come back to theatre.

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you're going to write something that people are going to love and be entertained by.

I love a really good storyline.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.

The place I begin is with story. If the audience doesn't care about that, then it doesn't matter how amazing the spectacle is. My central philosophy is that people go to the movies to be told a story, not to see stuff blow up.