Tom Hooper

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

— Tom Hooper

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

— Tom Hooper

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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. ↗

— Tom Hooper

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Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people. ↗

— Tom Hooper

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

— Tom Hooper

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

— Tom Hooper

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

— Tom Hooper

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

— Tom Hooper

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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

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

— Tom Hooper

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