Thank You To My Wonderful Actors, The

Thank You To My Wonderful Actors, The Triangle Of Man-love Which Is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush And Me.

I Think English Film Is Very Embarrassed By Patriotism, Generally.

There's Something About Being Cerebral, Intellectual, And Yet Emotionally Repressed [in Being Villain]. If You Think Someone's Doing This [bad] Stuff And They're In Complete Control, That's More Scary Than If They're Out Of Control.

After My Grandfather's Plane Took Enemy Fire, He Was Denied Permission To Land At The First Available Airstrip. In That Classic British Bureaucratic Way, They Said He Had To Go Back To Your Own Airbase In The Midlands. They Crashed Between The Coast And The Airfield.

I Decided To Be A Filmmaker When I Was 12. I Had Utter Clarity That This Would Be My Life.