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American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
Tom Hooper
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Tom Hooper
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: October 5
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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.
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I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.
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The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.
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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.
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I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.
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I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.
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I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.
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I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.
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Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.
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I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
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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.
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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.
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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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I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.
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American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
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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.
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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.
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