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

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 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.

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

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

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

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.