Top 30 Tom Hooper Quotes

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I feel connected to the Second World War because my fat

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
I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.
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 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
I mean, we’ve all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won’t come.
Tom Hooper
I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.
Tom Hooper
The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.
Tom Hooper
Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.
Tom Hooper
A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.
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 something than sitting around doing nothing.
Tom Hooper
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
I would say L.A. is more polite than London – it’s a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.
Tom Hooper
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’.
Tom Hooper
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
Tom Hooper
My films seem to be about men’s struggle with failure.
Tom Hooper
Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.
Tom Hooper
I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.
Tom Hooper
If you look at Shakespeare’s history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.
Tom Hooper
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
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
The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it’s about opening yourself up to what they bring.
Tom Hooper
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
I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.
Tom Hooper
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
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
I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.
Tom Hooper
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
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
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
I’m the son of highly functioning parents who I’m incredibly lucky to have.
Tom Hooper