Stephen Hopkins Quotes

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.

My hand trembles, my heart does not.

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

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

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 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.

We shoot double episodes in 15 days in Los Angeles.

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.

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

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!

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

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