T.C. Boyle Quotes

Everybody knows Aaron Sorkin's scripts. There's a huge amount of lines. There's a huge amount of interchange. You gotta do a lot of learning to be able to get it up to pace.

I have a philosophy, a belief, which I can see in many, many other directors that your early work is your best work, because you don't know what you're doing.

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.

It's a nice way to put the focus back on this simple act... if someone creates you.

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

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

I'm always after putting people in extreme circumstances. I'm always after not knowing what I'm doing in those extreme circumstances.

Everybody expects you to be qualified to talk about your films, but in a way, you're the least qualified person to talk about them. When you're finished, you don't watch them at all.

If the American taxpayer knew how much they paid per person to put Neil Armstrong on the moon they would never have paid it. It was hidden from them deliberately because the costs were astronomical.

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 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.

It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it; you're bound to.

What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.

You live your life and it ends quite quickly and all you can do with it is pass it on decently to someone else. Whether directly or indirectly, behave decently to other people.

Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

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.

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

My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.

I'm not a 'Star Wars' geek.

I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.

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

I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.

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

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.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.

I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.

I trained in the theatre.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

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.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.

I dont see much difference between it and the other films though I can see on a rational and intelligent level there is a big difference.

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

Although computer chips now are thinner, they're more powerful, they're not as reliable. You'd harvest computer chips from the 1980s from all around the world because they're reliable.

Apparently they're going to bring in 'Super Asbos'. But 'Asbos' already sound too cool. Teenagers see them as a badge of honour. They should call them 'Gaybos' or 'Bender Badges'.

They're always going, don't deal with terrorists. Let's deal with them. What's Allah offering you boys, 100 virgins? We'll give you 50 slags.

Jordan ran the London marathon to help raise money for the blind. After jogging that far with her body, I'm surprised she hasn't joined them!

That should be the anti-speeding advert. It should be footage of Richard Hammond trying to remember his own wedding day.

I guess we were kinda poor when we were kids, but we didn't know it. That's because my dad always refused to let us look at the family's financial records.

Now, the magic of British parks at night, as Bill Oddie presents.. Gaywatch.

God can get tiny, if we're not careful.

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.