Tom Hooper quotes

Tom Hooper is a British film and television director, acclaimed for his work on both the big and small screens. His notable projects include "The King's Speech," "Les Misérables," and "The Danish Girl." He has received numerous awards, including an Academy Award for Best Director. Here are 31 of his quotes:

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

Tom Hooper

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

Tom Hooper

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

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.

Tom Hooper

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

Tom Hooper

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

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

Tom Hooper

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

I don't even like football.

Tom Hooper

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

Tom Hooper

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

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

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

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

Tom Hooper

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

Tom Hooper

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

Tom Hooper

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

Tom Hooper

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

Tom Hooper

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

Tom Hooper

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

Tom Hooper

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

Tom Hooper

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

Tom Hooper