Danny Boyle knows he’d probably get some flack if he were to pitch his Academy Award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire today. “We wouldn’t be able to make that now,” the director said in a recent interview with The Guardian.

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.

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.”