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… — Stephen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid. — Stephen Hopkins Copy Share Image
It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another. — Stephen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys. — Stephen Hopkins Copy Share Image
It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this. — Stephen Hopkins Copy Share Image
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… — Stephen Hopkins Copy Share Image
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… — Stephen Hopkins Copy Share Image
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… — Stephen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting… — Stephen Hopkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
