British - Director | October 5, 1972 -
I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.
Tom Hooper
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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 think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.
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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.
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American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
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I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.
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A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.
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I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.
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I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.
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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.
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When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.
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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.
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