Tom Hooper — British Director born on October 01, 1972,

Thomas George "Tom" Hooper is a British film and television director of English and Australian background. Hooper began making short films at the age of 13, and had his first professional short, Painted Faces, broadcast on Channel 4 in 1992. At Oxford University Hooper directed plays and television commercials. After graduating, he directed episodes of Quayside, Byker Grove, EastEnders and Cold Feet... (wikipedia)

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.
I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the writer; to directing actors and the camera and working with music, sound, marketing and promotion. It uses so many sides of your brain.
Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say it out loud if you deal with actors you know very well. And I don't think you really need to be explicit.