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

Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time is over. They find you out and send you packing.

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear. Although the moment that it happens might be terribly sad and moving, five minutes later, if you're asked to remember that person, you go, "Oh right, yeah, yeah!" 'Cause you're just moving forward.

I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.

There is a Steve [Jobs] that Apple would like to actually present to the public. They have a character, Steve, and they want to keep that story going. And it's very important that writers challenge that occasionally and not just trust their parent companies to tell them.

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.