Tom Hooper famous quotes

There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and they're in complete control, that's more scary than if they're out of control.
-- Tom Hooper

#Thinking #Scary #Intellectual

A British villain never loses their sense of humour.
-- Tom Hooper

#Villain #British #Humour

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.
-- Tom Hooper

#Touching #Bigger #Ends

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

#Mother #Kings #Reading

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.
-- Tom Hooper

#Thinking #People #Childhood

A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.
-- Tom Hooper

#Drama #Names #Bleak

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.
-- Tom Hooper

#Thinking #Patriotism #Film

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

#Kings #Fighting #Historical

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

#Thinking #Actors #Body

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

#Land #Fire #Enemy

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.
-- Tom Hooper

#Thinking #People #Enjoy

I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.
-- Tom Hooper

#Juggernaut #Someday #Yearning

I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.
-- Tom Hooper

#Dream #Mean #Voice

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.
-- Tom Hooper

#Thinking #Gold #Directors

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

#Dad #Father #War

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

#Emotional #Leader #Anxiety

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.
-- Tom Hooper

#Play #Looks #Emotion

I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.
-- Tom Hooper

#Son #Parent #Lucky

I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.
-- Tom Hooper

#People #London #Polite

I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.
-- Tom Hooper

#People #Want #Screening

I don't even like football.
-- Tom Hooper

#Football

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
-- Tom Hooper

#Thinking #Silence #Emptiness

Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.
-- Tom Hooper

#Weekend #Special #Shooting

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.
-- Tom Hooper

#Would Be #Clarity #Filmmaker

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

#Uplifting #New York #Kings

I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.
-- Tom Hooper

#Character #Culture #Iconic

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

#Night #Talking #Worry

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

#Entrepreneur #Television #Way

Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me.
-- Tom Hooper

#Men #Actors #Triangles

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.
-- Tom Hooper

#People #Actors #Ordinary

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
-- Tom Hooper

#Patriotic #Identity #Cinema

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
-- Tom Hooper

#Class #Age #Culture

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

#Block #Thinking #Self