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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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'. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people. "

Ordinary People

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

" I don't even like football. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "