Tom Hooper Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

“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.”

“My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.”

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

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

“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.”

“A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.”

“Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.”

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