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" I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures. "

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" I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent. "

" I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day. "

" Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people. "

Ordinary People

" The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths. "

" I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life. "

" The hardest part of directing is the choosing. Unlike an actor who can do a variety of work, it is a year of your life, you can't afford to get it wrong. "

" I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized. "

" I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending. "

" If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush. "

" The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money. "

" American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis. "

" In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time. "

" I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the writer; to directing actors and the camera and working with music, sound, marketing and promotion. It uses so many sides of your brain. "

" My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images. "

" I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel. "

" What's fascinating about the Australians is they have this quality that they are impervious to majesty. They're not awed. "

" Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say it out loud if you deal with actors you know very well. And I don't think you really need to be explicit. "

" American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. "

" The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring. "

" A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak. "

" What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.' "

" When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'. "

" Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends. "

" My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure. "

" Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.' "

" With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'Can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited. "

" I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come. "

" I don't even like football. "

" I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally. "