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Famous Quotes By Tom Hooper

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With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'Can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited. — Tom Hooper

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I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel. — Tom Hooper

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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. — Tom Hooper

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My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images. — Tom Hooper

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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. — Tom Hooper

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I was always obsessed with finding truly researched images to add authenticity, out of that came something totally contemporary and modern. Research is very key to my process because over and over again, reality provides more interesting images than you could have invented. — Tom Hooper

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Some films clearly seem to divide people. And I do think there's something incredibly exciting about the commonality of us as human beings, which some films are lucky enough to tap into. — Tom Hooper

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I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts. — Tom Hooper

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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. — Tom Hooper

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Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends. — Tom Hooper

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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. — Tom Hooper

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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. — Tom Hooper

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I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally. — Tom Hooper

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I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures. — Tom Hooper

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Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people. — Tom Hooper

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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. — Tom Hooper

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The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money. — Tom Hooper

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The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films. — Tom Hooper

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I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new. — Tom Hooper

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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. — Tom Hooper

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The hardest part of directing is the choosing. Unlike an actor who can do a variety of work, it is a year of your life, you can't afford to get it wrong. — Tom Hooper

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

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Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich. — Tom Hooper

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Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, 'I loved you last night.' And they go, 'What about the week before?' They immediately worry. — Tom Hooper

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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. — Tom Hooper

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I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness. — Tom Hooper

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I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent. — Tom Hooper

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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. — Tom Hooper

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Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say it out loud if you deal with actors you know very well. And I don't think you really need to be explicit. — Tom Hooper

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American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis. — Tom Hooper

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Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me. — Tom Hooper

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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. — Tom Hooper

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Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.' — Tom Hooper

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A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak. — Tom Hooper

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Trans stories have now entered the mainstream in this fantastic way, but the most important thing is what follows from that is hopefully a shift in the experience of trans people - so that there's more acceptance in the culture to the issues they face and more support. — Tom Hooper

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The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring. — Tom Hooper

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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. — Tom Hooper

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If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament. — Tom Hooper

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Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again. — Tom Hooper

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What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.' — Tom Hooper

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A British villain never loses their sense of humour. — Tom Hooper

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Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense. — Tom Hooper

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My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure. — Tom Hooper

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The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths. — Tom Hooper

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I don't even like football. — Tom Hooper

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I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life. — Tom Hooper

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There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and they're in complete control, that's more scary than if they're out of control. — Tom Hooper

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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. — Tom Hooper

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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. — Tom Hooper

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I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have. — Tom Hooper