Tom Hooper
Tom Hooper
Thomas George "Tom" Hooper is a British film and television director of English and Australian background. 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth1 October 1972
careful people
I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.
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Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.
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I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.
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Trans stories have now entered the mainstream in this fantastic way, but the most important thing is what follows from that is hopefully a shift in the experience of trans people - so that there's more acceptance in the culture to the issues they face and more support.
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I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.
thinking people enjoy
I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.
people want screening
I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.
great work
The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.
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My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images.
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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.
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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.
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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.
What's fascinating about the Australians is they have this quality that they are impervious to majesty. They're not awed.
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I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the writer; to directing actors and the camera and working with music, sound, marketing and promotion. It uses so many sides of your brain.