From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

You can also hear this show at KCRW.com.

My guest's director, Danny Boyle, has gotten more genres

than the last 10 years of his career than most directors get to in a lifetime. He's managed to combine almost all of them in his newest film. You may have heard of it Slumdog Millionaire. Danny, first of all, congratulations, and thanks so much for being here. Thanks, Elvis. Very nice to be here. I guess one of the things that really strikes me about this film is that there's such an incredible sense of movement in it that by the musical number at the end of the movie, I find myself thinking, well, of course there's a musical number. It's been kind of leading to that anyway. I mean, the musical number is there, really, because you can't live and walk in Mumbai for a year without including a dance number. You know, it's just, it would be such an incomplete picture of the city if you didn't include it.

So it has to be there.

But the momentum thing is really interesting because, you know, the motion picture industry is called that for a reason.

It is about motion and I'm really kind of addicted to it.

And I kind of realize that although I don't

make action films I try and make each film I make almost as much like an action film as I can

even though they're not action films as such because I love action movies and I love momentum

and movement and there's something extraordinary about movies since they were especially when

they were first invented, what we went to

watch, which is to watch movement.

It was to watch motion.

It was spellbinding for people, frightening, terrifying for people.

And when you're filming a film using traditional celluloid or when you're watching it in a

film theatre using a traditional projector, the film is hurtling, hurtling through an enormous speed, you know. So everything's

got this kind of momentum. And I'm addicted to action movies and watching them. And I try to

bring some of that sensibility to, you know, the different projects, really. I just never

though seen a game show as depicted this kind of terrifying before. I mean, that sense momentum you give

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