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I love cities.
I am a sci-fi fan.
I trained in the theatre.
I'm not a 'Star Wars' geek.
Come a crisis, we want other people.
I've always wanted to do a space movie.
I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.
I don't want to make pompous, serious films.
Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.
I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.
Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.
There's lots of things that can be solved with cash.
I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.
Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.
You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.
If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.
It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.
I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.
You don't realize it, but often people are frightened of the director.
I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.
I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.
If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.
For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.
I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.
It's a nice way to put the focus back on this simple act... if someone creates you.
You know what actors are like; they moisturize every night. They're frozen in time.
I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
I find it difficult enough being called "Mr. Boyle," which as I age I'm increasingly called.
Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.
I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.
I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.
If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.
I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.
I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.
I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.
The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.
I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.
Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.
One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'
Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.
I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.
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.
Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.
One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.
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.
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.