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" If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament. "
Tom Hooper
Look
History
Emotions
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" 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
Me
" 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. "
Tom Hooper
Brain
Love
You
" 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. "
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Father
World
War
" 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'. "
Tom Hooper
Mother
Growing Up
Lost
" 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. "
Tom Hooper
Laughter
New York
Think
" I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally. "
Tom Hooper
Patriotism
Embarrassed
Film
" I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized. "
Tom Hooper
Print
People
Think
" I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code. "
Tom Hooper
Talk
People
Place
" 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.' "
Tom Hooper
Voice
Child
Confidence
" I don't even like football. "
Tom Hooper
Like
Football
Even
" What's fascinating about the Australians is they have this quality that they are impervious to majesty. They're not awed. "
Tom Hooper
Quality
About
Australians
" My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images. "
Tom Hooper
Shooting
Composing
Great
" I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new. "
Tom Hooper
Finding
Enjoy
Think
" 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
Us
" 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
Live
Mother
Story
" 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. "
Tom Hooper
Family
Doing
Better
" Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people. "
Tom Hooper
People
Ordinary
Ordinary People
" Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends. "
Tom Hooper
Special
Experiences
Weekends
" 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. "
Tom Hooper
Know
You
Think
" I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come. "
Tom Hooper
Cry
You
Voice
" I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness. "
Tom Hooper
Emptiness
You
About
" My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure. "
Tom Hooper
About
Men
Seem
" The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths. "
Tom Hooper
Universal
Bigger
End
" American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis. "
Tom Hooper
Relationship
Cinema
American
" A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak. "
Tom Hooper
Get
Because
Lot
" American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. "
Tom Hooper
Great
Travel
Good
" I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent. "
Tom Hooper
Everything
Gold
Think
" I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have. "
Tom Hooper
Who
Son
Highly
" 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
More
" 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. "
Tom Hooper
You
Talking
Week