Tom Hooper

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

— Tom Hooper

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

— Tom Hooper

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

— Tom Hooper

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

— Tom Hooper

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

— Tom Hooper

The relationship that Tony Blair has with Cherie Blair doesn't have an immediate binding effect on the body politic with Britain. But…

— Tom Hooper

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

— Tom Hooper

Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My…

— Tom Hooper

In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear,…

— Tom Hooper

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost…

— Tom Hooper

I have a ton of scripts sent to me. At the moment, Im frankly struggling to catch up. Im reading through all…

— Tom Hooper

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

— Tom Hooper

I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.

— Tom Hooper

Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, 'I loved you last night.'…

— Tom Hooper

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

— Tom Hooper

I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing…

— Tom Hooper

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

— Tom Hooper

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

— Tom Hooper

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

— Tom Hooper

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

— Tom Hooper

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

— Tom Hooper

Some films clearly seem to divide people. And I do think there's something incredibly exciting about the commonality of us as human…

— Tom Hooper

What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen…

— Tom Hooper

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

— Tom Hooper

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

— Tom Hooper