We wouldn’t be able to make that now,” said Danny Boyle, speaking to The Guardian in a recent interview about his films. “And that’s how it should be.” His 2008 Best Picture Oscar winner, scripted by Simon Beaufoy,

The ‘28 Years Later’ director reflected on the Oscar-winning film that starred Dev Patel and Freida Pinto: “We wouldn’t be able to make that now.”

The director add that we "have to look at the cultural baggage we carry and the mark that we’ve left on the world.”Seventeen years ago, Slumdog Millionaire swept the 81st Academy Awards, walking away with eight of the 10 Oscars it was nominated for.