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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people. "

Ordinary People

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" I don't even like football. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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