Latest Tom Hooper Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Tom Hooper

  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.

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

  Tom Hooper

  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.

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

  Tom Hooper

  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.

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

  Tom Hooper

  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.

• 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.

  Tom Hooper

  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.

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

  Tom Hooper

  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.

• There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and they're in complete control, that's more scary than if they're out of control.

  Tom Hooper

  Thinking, Scary, Intellectual

• A British villain never loses their sense of humour.

  Tom Hooper

  Villain, British, Humour