Stephen Hopkins Quotes
"When I was thinking of casting this, I thought, What roles would Sellers be playing now?"
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: Thought, Now, Thinking)
"Because of all the concurrent stories going in 24 and its fast pace, it can be complicated in terms of the story, so I thought sound could help with the storytelling."
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: Thought, Help, Sound)
"Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people."
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: People, Impulses)
"Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on."
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: Choices, Environment, Hearing, Sound, Want)
"Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys."
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: Play)
"I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise."
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: Light, Reality, Sound)
"There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start."
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: Choice)
"We shoot double episodes in 15 days in Los Angeles."
- Stephen Hopkins
"24 isn't like other shows, where you set the look once and you're done. The show started at midnight, then moved to a pre-dawn look, and now we're at dawn and we're warming up the day."
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: Dawn, Day, Midnight, Now)
"To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me."
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: Actors)
"I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face."
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: Birthday, People, Night, Waiting)
"There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make."
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: Film)
"Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away."
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: Mystery, Writing)
"It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another."
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: Sound)
"If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well."
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: Work, People)
"I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done."
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: Movies, Sound)
"I had no special effects, no monsters running around, nothing blew up; those things are all things I've done so many times that they lose their allure after a while."
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: Nothing, Running)
"I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience."
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: Film)
"I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid."
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: Life, Being)
"It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this."
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: People, Saying)