Quote by Tom Hooper
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlyi

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

Other quotes by Tom Hooper

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

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Money
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In The Kings Speech, patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasnt become complicated over time. – Tom Hooper

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Patriotism
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When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget. – Francis Ford Coppola

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movies

Ive always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse. – Jodie Foster

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movies

People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies. – Edward Norton

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movies

Sure, Twilight is really huge right now and everybodys freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what Im used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees. – Kristen Stewart

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movies

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Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and Im going to turn on the lights. – Suze Orman

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It was getting dark so suddenly that Alice thought there must be a thunderstorm coming on. What a thick black cloud that is! she said.
And how fast it comes! Why I do believe its got wings! – Lewis Carroll

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