There are three huge, titanic, space movies which if you ever make a film [about space] you cannot avoid. You may want to avoid them but you cannot. I've never known a genre like it where you are dictated to by these films, 2001, Alien, and Tarkovsky's Solaris.
Danny BoyleI love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.
Danny BoyleThe sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.
Danny BoyleTo force yourself out of the comfort zone, the main ingredient is trying to work in a world where you haven't been before, that you don't know the rules of. And that involves a lot of research, so you begin to see where the other people have been, but you are starting from as vulnerable and as low a point as possible.
Danny Boyle