Stephen Hopkins American Athlete Quotations

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

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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