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" I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent. "
Tom Hooper
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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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" I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code. "
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" The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. "
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" If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Some films clearly seem to divide people. And I do think there's something incredibly exciting about the commonality of us as human beings, which some films are lucky enough to tap into. "
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