#iv

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

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 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

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#against #any #childhood #crouch #dad

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

— Tom Hooper

#end #more #specific #touching #truths

Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.' ↗

— Tom Hooper

#australian #called #came #english #friends

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#action #body #cannot #cells #consumers

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#competition #consumer #incentive #only #progress

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#deny #economic #economic system #fundamental #impressive

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#any #exclusive #honor #party #political