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

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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. "

" Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people. "

Ordinary People

" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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