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" 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.' "

Tom Hooper

Voice

Child

Confidence

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

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Money

Entrepreneur

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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" I don't even like football. "

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Football

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