Tom Hooper Quotes & Sayings

“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 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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.”

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

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

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