Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

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

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

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.

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

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.