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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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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 people enjoy finding out something genuinely new. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people. "

Ordinary People

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't even like football. "

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