Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, "I loved you last night." And they go, "What about the week before?" They immediately worry.

Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.

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

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

I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.

I don't even like football.

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.