Danny Boyle

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?' ”

I always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it more, but you don't really. ”

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. ”

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored. ”

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down. ”

I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar. ”

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them. ”

I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes. ”

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be. ”

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love. ”