Stephen Hopkins Quotations

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well.

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.

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.

I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience.

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys.

There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make.

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.

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.

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.

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.

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.

I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done.

It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another.

To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me.

We shoot double episodes in 15 days in Los Angeles.

We use a lot of source music on some shows and none on others.

When I was thinking of casting this, I thought, What roles would Sellers be playing now?

We were at a turning point in the business and knew we had to do something.

We thought we could grow the business if we could help the sales team treat all of their customers in new ways.

I thought that if I ate even one piece of pizza, I'd gain 10 pounds,

We do know they are getting more calls per day because they are not spending two hours a day filling out orders by hand and faxing them.

There will be plenty of time for music later, but I will never be able to get these two weeks back,

It was inescapable and was with me all of the time,

Tablet PCs seemed to be the best transition from a paper based system to a technology based system.

It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this.

On behalf of our cast and crew, we are pleased to be able to complete our filming in Louisiana and to be part of the region's recovery effort.

The last straw would be when I told them that I had been having suicidal thoughts, ... But once again, I was the one who wanted to get help; I initiated it.

I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of a detective story.

My hand trembles, my heart does not.

I've never seen, heard, nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn't be talked about. Hell yes, I'm for debating anything!