
Top 31 Stephen Hopkins Quotes
#1. 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
#3. 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
#5. If you trace up Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand tip-top head Mason of the World, you will discover that the dread individual and the Chief of the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Superior General of the Jesuit Order] are one and the same person.
James Parton
#6. There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.
Stephen Hopkins
#7. Reed Scott is really good at coming up with insults.
Timothy Simons
#8. When I was thinking of casting this, I thought, What roles would Sellers be playing now?
Stephen Hopkins
#9. Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys.
Stephen Hopkins
#10. It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another.
Stephen Hopkins
#11. We use a lot of source music on some shows and none on others.
Stephen Hopkins
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Living Beauty is about creating a new ideal, a new reality, and a new aspiration for yourself. It's a guide filled with knowledge, secrets, and solutions to make you look and feel great
Bobbi Brown
#15. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily. I
Cormac McCarthy
#17. 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!
Stephen Hopkins
#18. 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
#19. I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.
Stephen Hopkins
#20. To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me.
Stephen Hopkins
#21. I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience.
Stephen Hopkins
#22. There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make.
Stephen Hopkins
#23. Effort is required to live life of others, but to live our own every action comes all and only natural.
Anuj
#24. Some thirty inches from my nose
The frontier of my Person goes,
And all the untilled air between
Is private pagus or demesne.
Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes
I beckon you to fraternize,
Beware of rudely crossing it:
I have no gun, but I can spit.
W. H. Auden
#25. 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
#26. It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this.
Stephen Hopkins
#27. I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done.
Stephen Hopkins
#28. Though I understand the theology behind it, the image does not bring me peace; it makes me feel sorry for the lion. It strips him of his essence, the fundamental part of his being. A lion that does not behave as a lion i snot a lion. It isn't even the lion's opposite. It's a mockery of a lion.
Rick Yancey
#29. 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.
Stephen Hopkins
#30. Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.
Stephen Hopkins
#31. 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
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top