Top 21 Quotes by Stephen Hopkins

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me.

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

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.

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.