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Tom Hooper Inspirational Quotes (28)
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A British villain never loses their sense of humour.
Tom Hooper
I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.
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
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'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.
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 mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.
Tom Hooper
The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.
Tom Hooper
I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word lavish and everything being magnificent.
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, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.
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
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
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
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
Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.
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
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
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
I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
Tom Hooper
Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.
Tom Hooper
I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.
Tom Hooper
I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.
Tom Hooper
American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
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 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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