My hand trembles, my heart does not.

- Stephen Hopkins

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 f…

- Stephen Hopkins

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

- Stephen Hopkins

We shoot double episodes in 15 days in Los Angeles.

- Stephen Hopkins

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, spli…

- Stephen Hopkins

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…

- Stephen Hopkins

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 wh…

- Stephen Hopkins

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

- Stephen Hopkins

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

- Stephen Hopkins