Danny boyle

I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

I love cities.

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

Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

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

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

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