I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
Tom HooperThe more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.
Tom HooperI decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.
Tom HooperI think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word "lavish" and everything being magnificent.
Tom HooperWell, 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