Tom Hooper Quotes

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.

I love David Fincher - even though it was just two scenes, I loved the way we worked and could tell by the way he was shooting it that this was going to be an affective movie to say the least.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'

I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them come to life.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

I still want to direct. That's my main love, and that comes from being obsessed with subtleties and people.

The reason why I wanted to direct is because there are personal stories that I want to tell, but also because I love every part of movie making - from the wardrobe to the set decoration to cinematography.

It's one of the things I love about my job: it's my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.

Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.

I don't think there is a movie that I've been on that I wasn't sure I could direct it better. But certainly also, as a director of photography, I have to serve the movie in whatever way I can as a filmmaker.

I'll say this: I think from a directing standpoint, 'Loving' is my most accomplished film. Strictly from a technical, directing point of view.

I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.

Filmmaking is a creative process so there is a lot of collaboration that happens on set between an actor and director, but at the end of the day, we're there to actualize the director's vision and things happen organically.