Tom Hooper Quotes

• I don’t even like football.

  Tom Hooper

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

  Tom Hooper

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

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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.

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

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• Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

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

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

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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.’

  Tom Hooper

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• 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.

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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.

  Tom Hooper

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• 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

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

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• My dad said, ‘The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn’t be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old’. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn’t the same any more.

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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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• 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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• 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

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• The hardest part of directing is the choosing. Unlike an actor who can do a variety of work, it is a year of your life, you can’t afford to get it wrong.

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• What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, ‘You have a right to be heard.’

  Tom Hooper

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Tom Hooper (42)

Birth:	1972
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Director

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