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" I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness. "

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" 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. "

" Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people. "

Ordinary People

" 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'. "

" I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have. "

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

" Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, 'I loved you last night.' And they go, 'What about the week before?' They immediately worry. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more. "

" I don't even like football. "

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts. "

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