68 Quotes by Tom Hooper

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.