The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.
Danny BoyleOne of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.
Danny BoyleI don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.
Danny BoyleActors 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 Boyle