Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say it out loud if you deal with actors you know very well. And I don't think you really need to be explicit.

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

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

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

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.

Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.