Quotes By 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.

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

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

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

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.

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

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.

I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images.

Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.