“American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.”
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My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.
I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.
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.
The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.
