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I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

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I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the writer; to directing actors and the camera and working with music, sound, marketing and promotion. It uses so many sides of your brain.

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I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing.

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I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

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What's fascinating about the Australians is they have this quality that they are impervious to majesty. They're not awed.

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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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My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.

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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 feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

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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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