Tom Hooper Quotes

• 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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• Some films clearly seem to divide people. And I do think there’s something incredibly exciting about the commonality of us as human beings, which some films are lucky enough to tap into.

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• If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it’s just a mush.

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• I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it’s better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing.

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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 love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the writer; to directing actors and the camera and working with music, sound, marketing and promotion. It uses so many sides of your brain.

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• What’s fascinating about the Australians is they have this quality that they are impervious to majesty. They’re not awed.

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

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• The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it’s about opening yourself up to what they bring.

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• My two great loves when I’m shooting are working with great actors and composing images.

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• My films seem to be about men’s struggle with failure.

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

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

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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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• I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

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

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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 directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word ‘lavish’ and everything being magnificent.

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

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

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Tom Hooper (42)

Birth:	1972
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Director

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