Tom Hooper Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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.

Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.

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

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

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.

I don't even like football.

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.

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

I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.

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

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

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