Tom Hooper Quotes

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

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

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

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word "lavish" and everything being magnificent.

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

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

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

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

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

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

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.

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

I don't even like football.

Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.

A British villain never loses their sense of humour.

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

Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.