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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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'. "

" Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people. "

Ordinary People

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "