Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.

I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get a chance.

When you have children your own hypocrisy becomes more apparent because you're telling them how to behave, and you're not behaving like that yourself. So it obliges one to really go in and try to look at why there is a huge gulf between how one knows one wants to behave and how one actually does behave.

I find it difficult enough being called "Mr. Boyle," which as I age I'm increasingly called.

Clearly, you can think back and see that a character has had enormous odds stacked against him and has to overcome them. It's usually a guy, I'm afraid. But then you're setting up a new movie you have amnesia about these meetings, when you've discussed it more analytically.

I'm not a 'Star Wars' geek.

I always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it more, but you don't really.