#ay

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

#director #entrepreneur #expensive #extinct #fascinates

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

#actor #before #go #i #immediately

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. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#back #because #completely #connected #dad

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

— Tom Hooper

#i #someday #these #yearning

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

#audiences #comedies #commented #ending #fact

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

— Tom Hooper

#code #i #london #lot #more

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

— Tom Hooper

#emotions #extraordinary #history #intensification #look

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

#body #body language #deal #enough #explicit

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

#australian #called #came #english #friends

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

#anyone #child #confidence #heard #i