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.
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I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.
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I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.
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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.
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When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.
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I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.
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I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.
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A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.
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American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.