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- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Blocks
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'Can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.
- Iconic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
- Nov 07, 2020
My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Crouch
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
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'.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020