Quotes By Tom Hooper

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

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

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.

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

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

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

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

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

I don't even like football.

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.

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

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.