"I mean, we’ve all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won’t come." ― Tom Hooper Topic(s): Movies More From Tom Hooper "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 we’re completely living in it." "American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis." "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." More In Movies "My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I’m still a virgin in a lot of ways. I’m not used to being shot down for no reason."― Will Smith "I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises."― Catherine Deneuve "If your movies don’t perform, they just stop calling you."― Matt Damon