All Tom Hooper Quotes
- 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… Came
- Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me. Actors
- 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… Actor
- 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… Aggressor
- I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally. Embarrassed
- A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak. Bad
- I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized. Childhood
- 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… Audience
- Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people. Actor
- American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis. American
- American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. Across
- I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness. Began
- I don't even like football. Even Like
- I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel. Feel
- I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts. Huge
- I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come. All
- I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent. Become Overly
- I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new. Enjoy
- I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code. Careful
- I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have. Functioning
- If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament. Allows
- 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… All
- Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends. Been
- I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life. Clarity
- 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… Audience