Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.
Danny BoyleThe extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.
Danny BoyleI'm always after putting people in extreme circumstances. I'm always after not knowing what I'm doing in those extreme circumstances.
Danny BoyleMy kids are too old to remember this now but, when they were much younger, I swore to them if this miracle ever happened, I would receive it in the spirit of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh, and thats what that was.
Danny BoyleNormally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors are controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally work on are very controlling constructs.
Danny Boyle