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

Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.

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

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

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

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