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" Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, 'I loved you last night.' And they go, 'What about the week before?' They immediately worry. "

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" With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'Can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited. "

Tom Hooper

Leader

Connection

Anxiety

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

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

" 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

Enough

People

" I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending. "

" I don't even like football. "

Tom Hooper

Football

Even

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

" I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing. "

" Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people. "

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

" 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 think all of us are engaged in that every day. "

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

Tom Hooper

People

Think

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

" I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the writer; to directing actors and the camera and working with music, sound, marketing and promotion. It uses so many sides of your brain. "

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

Tom Hooper

Opening

Great

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

" What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.' "

" When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'. "

" 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 and the airfield. "

Tom Hooper

Said

Grandfather

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

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

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

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

" I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel. "

" 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 people enjoy finding out something genuinely new. "

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

" 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

Money

Entrepreneur

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