Quotes by Tom Hooper

About Tom Hooper:

Thomas George "Tom" Hooper is a British film and television director of English and Australian background. Hooper began making short films at the age of 13, and had his first professional short, Painted Faces, broadcast on Channel 4 in 1992. At Oxford University Hooper directed plays and television commercials. After graduating, he directed episodes of Quayside, Byker Grove, EastEnders and Cold Feet.
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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.

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 thin...

Tom Hooper

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

Tom Hooper

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

Tom Hooper

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.

Tom Hooper

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

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

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

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

Tom Hooper

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

Tom Hooper

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

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 ...

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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

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

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I don't even like football.

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Author Bio

  • NameTom Hooper
  • DescriptionBritish movie director
  • BornOctober 1, 1972
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Television Director
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Director; Primetime Emmy Award; Directors Guild Of America Award