Quotes By Tom Hooper
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
I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.
Tom Hooper
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.
Tom Hooper
The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.
Tom Hooper
American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
Tom Hooper
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.
Tom Hooper