Top 21 Quotes by Stephen Hopkins

If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well.

It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another.

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.

When I was thinking of casting this, I thought, What roles would Sellers be playing now?

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

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

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

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

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.