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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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I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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'.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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I don't even like football.

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

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

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

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