Tom Hooper Quotes

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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

  Kings, Fighting, Historical

  "Q&A with 'King's Speech' director Tom Hooper". Interview with Walter Addiego, www.sfgate.com. February 4, 2011.

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• I was always obsessed with finding truly researched images to add authenticity, out of that came something totally contemporary and modern. Research is very key to my process because over and over again, reality provides more interesting images than you could have invented.

  Tom Hooper

  Reality, Keys, Interesting

  "Oscar Watch Q &A: Tom Hooper Talks Long Road to King’s Speech". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 22, 2010.

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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.

  Tom Hooper

  Block, Thinking, Self

  "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

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

  Tom Hooper

  Acting, Moments, Tense

  "Director Tom Hooper Talks LES MISERABLES, Making the Decision to Have the Actors Sing Live, the Difficulty of Editing the Movie Down, an Extended Cut, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 29, 2012.

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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.

  Tom Hooper

  Entrepreneur, Way, Directors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Tom Hooper

  Thinking, Gold, Directors

  "Q&A with 'King's Speech' director Tom Hooper". Interview with Walter Addiego, www.sfgate.com. February 4, 2011.

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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

  Dad, Father, War

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• Trans stories have now entered the mainstream in this fantastic way, but the most important thing is what follows from that is hopefully a shift in the experience of trans people - so that there's more acceptance in the culture to the issues they face and more support.

  Tom Hooper

  Acceptance, Issues, People

  "The Real Events That Tom Hooper Didn't Include in The Danish Girl, and Why". Inerview with Maggie Panos, www.popsugar.com. January 5, 2016.

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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.

  Tom Hooper

  Dream, Mean, Voice

  "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

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

  Tom Hooper

  Thinking, People, Childhood

  "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

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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

  Mother, Kings, Reading

  "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

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

  Tom Hooper

  Film, Rich, Posh

  "Oscar Watch Q &A: Tom Hooper Talks Long Road to King’s Speech". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 22, 2010.

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

  Tom Hooper

  Thinking, Patriotism, Film

  "Q&A with 'King's Speech' director Tom Hooper". Interview with Walter Addiego, www.sfgate.com. February 4, 2011.

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• 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

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

  Tom Hooper

  Drama, Names, Bleak

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

  Tom Hooper

  Cliche, Filmmaker

  "Oscar Watch Q &A: Tom Hooper Talks Long Road to King’s Speech". Interview with Anne Thompson, blogs.indiewire.com. November 22, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Scary, Intellectual

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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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  Night, Talking, Worry

  "Directing is the easy part". Interview with John Horn, articles.latimes.com. January 23, 2011.

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

  Tom Hooper

  Men, Actors, Triangles

  "Oscars: As It Happened". Oscars Live Coverage, www.empireonline.com. February 28, 2011.

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

  Tom Hooper

  Directors, Festivals, Irony

  "The Real Events That Tom Hooper Didn't Include in The Danish Girl, and Why". Interview with Maggie Panos, www.popsugar.com. January 5, 2016.

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• 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, Needs, Actors

  "Directing is the easy part". Interview with John Horn, articles.latimes.com. January 23, 2011.

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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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  Fire, Land, Enemy

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• 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

  "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

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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.

  Tom Hooper

  Play, Looks, Emotion

  "Q&A with 'King's Speech' director Tom Hooper". Interview with Walter Addiego, www.sfgate.com. February 4, 2011.

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

  Tom Hooper

  Son, Parent, Lucky

  "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

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