"I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally."

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Source : "Q&A with 'King's Speech' director Tom Hooper". Interview with Walter Addiego, www.sfgate.com. February 4, 2011.

Tom Hooper

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“The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter - As Matthew Parris wondered of Barack Obama in these pages recently, is he human?”
“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
“My father is much more into forgetting and forgiving, but I'm much more into revenge.”
“I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.”
“The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating, writing words that are his own and not his own, writing a work not original to him, composing with utmost pains and without recognition of his pains or the fact that the composition really is his own.”
“The SEC now is 3500 chickens, and we need to get some foxes in there.”
“When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.”
“Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.”

Source : Dora Russell (1975). “The Tamarisk Tree: My quest for liberty and love”

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