Tom Hooper

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. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#classic #films #focus #hollywood #hollywood films

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#emotions #extraordinary #history #intensification #look

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#failure #films #men #seem #struggle

My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#great #i #images #loves #shooting

Some films clearly seem to divide people. And I do think there's something incredibly exciting about the commonality of us as human beings, which some films are lucky enough to tap into. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#beings #clearly #commonality #divide #enough

The hardest part of directing is the choosing. Unlike an actor who can do a variety of work, it is a year of your life, you can't afford to get it wrong. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#afford #choosing #directing #get #hardest

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#bring #great #i #more #more and more

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#end #more #specific #touching #truths

What's fascinating about the Australians is they have this quality that they are impervious to majesty. They're not awed. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#australians #awed #fascinating #impervious #majesty

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'. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#affected #because #being #dad #father