My Dad Said, 'The Thing That I Was Told That Was Really Helpful Was That I Mustn't Be Afraid Of The Things I Was Afraid Of When I Was Five Years Old'. The Shock Of His Childhood Had Put Him In This Defensive Crouch Against The World, And He Needed To Know That He Had A Nice Wife And Kids And It Wasn't The Same Any More.

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.

Tom Hooper

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After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

Tom Hooper

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