Basically, actors arrive in a bubble. They have a little sealed bubble around them and it's basically [comprised of] their agents, their last film, their next film, their press agent, and their per diems - all these things, they cocoon themselves with and you have to puncture that bubble on each of them to make them be in your film.

I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

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

One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'