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
patriotic identity cinema
American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
class age culture
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
thinking silence emptiness
I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
acceptance issues people
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.
son parent lucky
I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.
people london polite
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.
festivals directors irony
The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.
emotional leader anxiety
With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'Can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited.
land fire enemy
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.
thinking gold directors
I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.
acting moments tense
Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.
dream mean voice
I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.
juggernaut someday yearning
I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.