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Quote by Tom Hooper
The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and te

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

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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 were completely living in it. – Tom Hooper

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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want – the want of money. – Johann Georg Zimmermann

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Im not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy. – Peter Singer

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Money is a needful and precious thing, – Louisa May Alcott

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Unlike my grandfather or my brother, Ive actually been able to make some money at a racetrack. – John Malkovich

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