Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me.

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word "lavish" and everything being magnificent.

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

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

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 began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.