British - Director | October 5, 1972 -
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
Tom Hooper
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The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.
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I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.
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If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush.
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I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
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My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images.
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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.
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I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.
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I don't even like football.
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My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.
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Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.
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Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.
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