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.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

When you're in zero gravity everything moves at the same speed and nothing stops it. If you throw something it travels forever but it still travels at the speed you threw it at. To make it plausible, movies have chosen to show it in slow motion.

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

I'm not a 'Star Wars' geek.

The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.