#me

If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light. ↗

— Tobe Hooper

#american #chainsaw #different #different kind #first

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

Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out. ↗

— Tobe Hooper

#come #disappear #each #every #gets

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

Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#experiences #most #shooting #some #special

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

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 mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#cry #dreams #had #i #know