Top 42 Quotes by Tom Hooper

About Tom Hooper

These are some quotes by British author Tom Hooper Director, who was born on October 1, 1972.

The hardest part of directing is the choosing. Unlike an actor who can do a variety of work, it is a year of your life, you can't afford to get it wrong.

The hardest part of directing is the choosing. Unlike an actor who can do a variety of work, it is a year of your life, you can't afford to get it wrong.

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

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

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

Tom Hooper

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

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

Tom Hooper

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

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

Tom Hooper

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Tom Hooper

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

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

Tom Hooper

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.

Tom Hooper

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