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

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

Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.

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.

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

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.