#film

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#age #american #american movies #class #culture

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

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. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#director #entrepreneur #expensive #extinct #fascinates

I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#audiences #comedies #commented #ending #fact

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

— Tom Hooper

#failure #films #men #seem #struggle

My ultimate film role would be to play the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin. ↗

— Jennifer Hudson

#aretha franklin #film #franklin #play #queen

When you hear my music and you feel the emotion, it's real. When you see me in a film and you see a tear, it's real. ↗

— Jennifer Hudson

#feel #film #hear #me #music

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#film #i #lot #quickly #stage

But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#also #approach #approaching #bach #because

For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#fall #films #going #know #like