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Tom Hooper Biography

Thomas George Hooper (born 5 October 1972) is an English film and television director of English and Australian background.[n 1] Hooper began making short films as a teenager, and had his first professional short, Painted Faces, broadcast on Channel 4 in 1992. At Oxford University Hooper directed plays and television commercials. After graduating, he directed episodes of Quayside, Byker Grove, EastEnders and Cold Feet on British television.

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

People, Screening, Tell, Want

Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me.

Actors, Firth, Geoffrey, Men, Thank, Triangles

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

Cinema, Identity, Patriotic, Relationship

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

Age, Class, Culture, Myths, Robustly, Travel

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.

Block, Overcoming, Physical, Self, Shyness, Thinking

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

Bleak, Drama, Name, Names, Unremittingly

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

Careful, London, People, Polite, Talk

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

Enjoy, Genuinely, People, Think, Thinking

I was always obsessed with finding truly researched images to add authenticity, out of that came something totally contemporary and modern. Research is very key to my process because over and over again, reality provides more interesting images than you could have invented.

Contemporary, Finding, Interesting, Keys, Process, Reality

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.

Back, Connected, Dad, Father, War

I don't even like football.

Football, Like

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

Embarrassed, English, Film, Patriotism, Thinking

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.

Actors, Deal, Explicit, Loud, Needs, Thinking

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

Childhood, People, Think, Thinking, Throat

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

Juggernaut, Juggernauts, Someday, Yearning

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.

Directors, Entrepreneur, Film And Television, Gatekeepers, Television, Way

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

Bigger, Ends, Touching, Uncompromisingly, Universal

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.

Anxiety, Emotional, Leader, Medium, Radio, Speaks

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.

Enemy, Fire, Land, Said, Way

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

Become, Directors, Everything, Gold, Overly, Thinking

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