Stephen Hopkins Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

My hand trembles, my heart does not.