Who is Tom Hooper

Thomas George Hooper (born 5 October 1972) is a British-Australian filmmaker.

Hooper began making short films as a teenager and had his first professional short, Painted Faces, broadcast on Channel 4 in 1992. At Oxford University, Hooper directed plays and television commercials. After graduating, he directed episodes of Quayside, Byker Grove, EastEnders, and Cold Feet on British television. In the 2000s, Hooper directed the major BBC costume dramas Love in a Cold Climate (2001) and Daniel Deronda (2002), as well as the 2003 revival of ITV's Prime Suspect series, starring Helen Mirren. Hooper made his feature film debut with Red Dust (2004), a British drama starring Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor, before directing Helen Mirren again in the Company Pictures/HBO Films historical ...
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Tom Hooper Quotes

• I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.
• 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.
• When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.
• 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.
• I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.

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Comments about Tom Hooper

• Cinemamio: colin firth e helena bonham carter il discorso del re (the king's speech) - 2010 diretto da tom hooper
• Rbamanagement: our client emma dears was at the launch of the new award winning film/advert for vanish raising awareness for girls with autism. directed by oscar winning director tom hooper, emma's daughter is the star of the advert and the family all feature.
• Jimjarmuschhair: no film in the last five years lived up to its true potential quite the way tom hooper’s cats did
• Danblackroyd: tom hooper is reading this news like ripley in aliens, screaming "get your men out of there!"
• Maximinalist: i forget that hbo max also has a bunch of musicals i intend to watch at some point. the 60s film adaptation of camelot the music man ... tom hooper's cats...

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