As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.
Danny BoyleEvents in the present can trigger quite a young part of ourselves. If we don't take responsibility and start looking after that young part of ourselves, we can start asking partners to look after that part of ourselves or we wound ourselves.
Danny BoyleI have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.
Danny BoyleIts easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.
Danny BoyleYour first film is always your best film, in a way. There's something about your first film that you never ever get back to, but you should always try. It's that slight sense of not knowing what you're doing, because the technical skills you learn - especially if you have a film that works, that has some kind of success - are beguiling. The temptation is to use them again, and they're not necessarily good storytelling techniques.
Danny Boyle