Tom Hooper Quotes

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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…
• Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me.
• 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…
• 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…
• I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.
• A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.
• I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.
• 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…
• Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.
• American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
• American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
• I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
• I don't even like football.
• I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.
• I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.
• I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.
• I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.
• I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.
• I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.
• I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.

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