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I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you? ↗

— Shannon Hoon

#because #doing #enough #frustrated #happy

You use everything. You use tragedy you use everything. ↗

— Shannon Hoon

#tragedy #use #you

The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate. ↗

— Tobe Hooper

#influences #kind #life #my life #politically

The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce. ↗

— Tobe Hooper

#dead #delayed #direct #i #living

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. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#actor #before #go #i #immediately

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#enjoy #ordinary #ordinary people #people #treated

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. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#back #because #completely #connected #dad

I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#i #someday #these #yearning

I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the writer; to directing actors and the camera and working with music, sound, marketing and promotion. It uses so many sides of your brain. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#camera #demands #directing #entrepreneur #hustler

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

— Tom Hooper

#being #directors #everything #gilt #gold