I always wanted to make this film or another film. I thought the worst thing you could do was to react to Slumdog's success in some way. I thought it would be really foolish.

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

The most important thing about Olympics, of course, is the games and not the opening ceremony. It's weird the way it gets inverted sometimes.

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

Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors are controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally work on are very controlling constructs.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

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.