Tom Hooper Quotes

You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.

There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.

The person you're playing must have feelings, but if he's not able to show them, then just the subtlest rumblings and nuances can say an incredible amount.

My wife can look at me in a certain way and I can tell by her eyes how she's feeling about me or when I should stop talking about something. It's kind of the way twins have their own thing.

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

You can convey a lot of emotion with just some eyebrows and mouth movement.

Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?'

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.

There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.

A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with.

When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.

Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that.

When two people are paying close attention to each other, check out the others in the group and see who's observing. Human dynamics are amazing, but so much that you might learn is subconscious interplay.

I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence.

I think you can actually express a lot more in ways without words.