Danny Boyle Quotes

I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me.

I'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

It's very easy to get caught up in everything that's going on and just daily stuff being a distraction. When you have all that taken away from you, your daily activity becomes a lot more subtle, and you appreciate it all a lot more.

Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

I was lucky in the sense that I was never blessed with an overly reflective nature.

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

I've tried very hard to stay grounded with my family, my ol' buddies, nature, music, and creativity.

I think the best mood for writing is a heavy feeling that's a little bit removed from you. Sometimes I feel very self-indulgent and bratty and ungrateful, and no good music comes out of that. But sometimes I can be really sad or have an excess of feeling yet somehow be able to see the big picture more.

I'm not religious, but I do pray. It's 60 seconds of meditation, visualizing myself, looking at myself, and being conscious of my own consciousness. That will align me for the rest of the day.

Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity.

The hardest part of this year has been learning to enjoy it. It's almost like a full-time job reminding myself to live in the moment and not look for more, more, more...I see now that people who make movies, this world of creative geniuses that I grew up idolizing, are just normal people who wanted to do something and made it happen. Everything that's happened to me in the last year has only made me feel more like a normal person, more human, but in the most beautiful way.

Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer. Like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious. To be fully conscious and alert, with life banging and popping and cuckooing all around, you are not going to find your way to your subconscious, which is a place of complete submission.

We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention

That's the most important thing in art: to be aware, pay attention, be inspired - but it should come ultimately from you.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash.

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

Before, it came easy for me. I don't have two speeds anymore. I need to focus on the small things that I once took for granted.