The filmmaker will oversee the ceremony, which is being produced by Stephen Daldry with input from writer Frank Cottrell Boyce and several designers.
Boyle told The Observer: "We are at the stage of working through principles. It's a weird one, because of course you can do anything at all. What we think is that Beijing was the end of a certain kind of ceremony, that epic scale.
"The thing about the stadium is that it has the same number of seats as Beijing but is half the size. It is a more intimate space. So that's what we are thinking. We want to keep it on a human scale. It won't be such a spectacle... in a good way, we hope."
Asked if he was having sleepless nights due to the event, he replied: "Nah. It could be intimidating. But if people like me and Daldry can't cope with that, then we shouldn't be in the business.
"Most of all I think we understand something about this country. We are not about showing off shiny badges about ourselves. I mean China has to go: 'Look at us we are a very serious nation'.
"But we are so much in a post-post stage of that seriousness about ourselves that I think we have to reflect that. To be a bit more idiosyncratic and relaxed."
When it was suggested it could be an 'ironic opening ceremony', Boyle responded: "Well I don't know about that. But what I do know is that after a couple of years of this coalition government we may well all be looking for a bit of light relief."
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