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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 to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.

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Tom Hooper
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: October 5
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