Tom Hooper

I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, 'I loved you last night.' And they go, 'What about the week before?' They immediately worry.

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.