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" I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman. "

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" The films of which I'm most proud I've written are the ones that pivot on forgiveness. "

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" The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders. "

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" Sometimes it's okay for an audience not to understand everything that's going on. "

" I can't help slightly falling in love with every character I write about. And I quite like writing about people who are vilified. "

" Every dramatist will tell you that they know deep down what happened in the course of making that film and to what degree they took steps that were convenient and to what degree they took steps in telling their story that were dishonest. You know in your heart of hearts. "

" Everything I write, I've written the first draft in Austria. "

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" The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do. "

" Barack Obama winning the election had an instant impact on everything - race relations, national self-esteem, tolerance. It also had an instant affect on 'Frost/Nixon.' At a stroke, instead of being a piece that reminded people of the agony they were in, it became an uplifting message about the agony they had escaped. "

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" For a younger generation to imagine a time where there was no security at airports - going around the world in the bar of a jumbo jet, 'Tell the plane to wait, I'm running late!' - there is something very Austin Powers about David Frost, a man who, in all seriousness, would approach women in a safari suit, with sideburns. "

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" I insist to this day that if you read the screenplay to 'The Queen,' it leaves you in no doubt that we considered her an isolated, out-of-touch, cold, emotionally inaccessible, overprivileged, deluded woman, heading an institution that should immediately be dismantled in any free and fair society. "

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