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

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

" I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I don't even like football. "

" After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield. "

" I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament. "

" 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. "

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

" I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it. "

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

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

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

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

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