Tom Hooper Quotes
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Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.
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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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Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.
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A British villain never loses their sense of humour.
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I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.
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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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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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The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.
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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.
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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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Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.
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The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.
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I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.
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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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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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A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.
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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.
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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.
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I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.
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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 began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
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Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.
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Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.
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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 think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.
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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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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.
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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.
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Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me.
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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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