Actors Enjoy Being Treated As Ordinary People.

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.

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.

Nowadays Filmmakers Tend To Recycle The Same Cliches Over And Over Again.

The Irony Of A Director Going To Film Festivals Is You Never Get To See Any Of The Films.

A Lot Of Dramas Get A Bad Name Commercially Because They Are Unremittingly Bleak.