Tom Hooper Quotes

The more particular you make something, the more universal it becomes.

There is a world of difference between not disclosing fine detail and relying on broad and generalised assertions. The first may be understandable; the second is not acceptable.

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.

The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates.

There's always to me a universality - one of the things I learned early on as a journalist and a writer is that there's a universality in specifics. The more specific you get, the more universal it can be.

You be as truthful as you can to a specific situation, and it will become universal.

After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.

The truth is in the details.

People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong'.

Exactitude is not truth.

Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.'

I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague.

There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them... It was my teacher Lisette Model who finally made it clear to me that the more specific you are, the more general it will be.

I think people enjoy "The Lobster" because people respond to original things, but I think they only respond to original things if they connect to some truths within us.

The magic of fiction seems to be the more specific you are, the more universal you end up becoming.

It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

On cannot be precise, and still be true.

A good song deals with the human condition, and the truth of the human condition.

The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure of, to something precise, clear, definite, which by reflection and analysis we find is involved in the vague thing that we start from, and is, so to speak, the real truth of which that vague thing is a sort of shadow.

I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.