If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.
American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush.
I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
What's fascinating about the Australians is they have this quality that they are impervious to majesty. They're not awed.
I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.
