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Stephen Hopkins [1958-0] Jamaican

Rank: 103
Director

Stephen Hopkins was a governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, a Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Birthday, Work

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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.	Birthday	101
I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.		102
If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well.	Work	103
I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience.		104
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.		105
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.		106
There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.		107
Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.		108
Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys.		109
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.		110
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.		111
There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make.		112
I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done.		113
It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another.		114
To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me.		115
We shoot double episodes in 15 days in Los Angeles.		116
We use a lot of source music on some shows and none on others.		117
When I was thinking of casting this, I thought, What roles would Sellers be playing now?		118
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.		119
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.		120
It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this.		121

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