Danny Boyle

You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life. ”

The 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. ”

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded. ”

I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it. ”

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture. ”

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery. ”

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well. ”

It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness. ”

People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear. ”

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere. ”