Tom Hooper Citas

• In "The King's Speech," patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.

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  Kings, Fighting, Historical

  "Q&A with 'King's Speech' director Tom Hooper". Interview with Walter Addiego, www.sfgate.com. February 4, 2011.

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• I was always obsessed with finding truly researched images to add authenticity, out of that came something totally contemporary and modern. Research is very key to my process because over and over again, reality provides more interesting images than you could have invented.

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  Reality, Keys, Interesting

  "Oscar Watch Q &A: Tom Hooper Talks Long Road to King’s Speech". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 22, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Block, Thinking, Self

  "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

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• Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.

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  Acting, Moments, Tense

  "Director Tom Hooper Talks LES MISERABLES, Making the Decision to Have the Actors Sing Live, the Difficulty of Editing the Movie Down, an Extended Cut, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 29, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Entrepreneur, Way, Directors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word "lavish" and everything being magnificent.

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  Thinking, Gold, Directors

  "Q&A with 'King's Speech' director Tom Hooper". Interview with Walter Addiego, www.sfgate.com. February 4, 2011.

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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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  Dad, Father, War

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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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  Acceptance, Issues, People

  "The Real Events That Tom Hooper Didn't Include in The Danish Girl, and Why". Inerview with Maggie Panos, www.popsugar.com. January 5, 2016.

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• Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.

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  Weekend, Special, Shooting

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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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  Dream, Mean, Voice

  "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

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• Creo que la huella del pulgar en la garganta de muchas personas son traumas infantiles no procesados ni reconocidos.

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  Thinking, People, Childhood

  "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

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

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  Film, Rich, Posh

  "Oscar Watch Q &A: Tom Hooper Talks Long Road to King’s Speech". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 22, 2010.

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

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  Thinking, Patriotism, Film

  "Q&A with 'King's Speech' director Tom Hooper". Interview with Walter Addiego, www.sfgate.com. February 4, 2011.

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• Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.

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  Mother, Kings, Reading

  "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

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• I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

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  Would Be, Clarity, Filmmaker

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• Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.

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  Cliche, Filmmaker

  "Oscar Watch Q &A: Tom Hooper Talks Long Road to King’s Speech". Interview with Anne Thompson, blogs.indiewire.com. November 22, 2010.

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

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  Drama, Names, Bleak

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• Hay algo en ser cerebral, intelectual y a la vez emocionalmente reprimido [al ser villano]. Si crees que alguien está haciendo estas cosas [malas] y tiene todo el control, eso da más miedo que si está fuera de control.

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  Thinking, Scary, Intellectual

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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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  Thinking, Silence, Emptiness

  "Director Tom Hooper Exclusive Interview THE KING’S SPEECH". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. November 26, 2010.

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• The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

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  Directors, Festivals, Irony

  "The Real Events That Tom Hooper Didn't Include in The Danish Girl, and Why". Interview with Maggie Panos, www.popsugar.com. January 5, 2016.

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• American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

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  Patriotic, Identity, Cinema

  "Tom Hooper: the man who doesn't need Oscar". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2011.

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• Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

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  People, Ordinary, Actors

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• I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.

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  Character, Culture, Iconic

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• 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.

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  Night, Talking, Worry

  "Directing is the easy part". Interview with John Horn, articles.latimes.com. January 23, 2011.

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

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  Men, Actors, Triangles

  "Oscars: As It Happened". Oscars Live Coverage, www.empireonline.com. February 28, 2011.

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