Stephen Hopkins Quotes

I went to USC and tried to learn about the other side of the camera a little bit.

The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

I don't know much about making films or TV programs, but what's cool about being in the studio is that you have more time.

I love the visual medium of film and TV. I love the science of it, working with the sound and the lighting and every aspect.

I've picked up so much about the technical aspects of filmmaking and television.

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

Film is a machine: you never stop.

I think everything within film and TV helps inform every other role, so it's definitely helped my acting, being on the other side of the camera, and it's just given me a whole new appreciation for how hard everybody in the crew works.

I was doing well in TV as a freelance cameraman, but it wasn't the direction I wanted to go in. I directed videos and tried to put something cinematic in every one. Dialogue, action sequences, helicopter, Steadicam.

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.

In my opinion, the motion picture is the greatest medium of expression ever invented. It embraces all the other arts. The films that have the greatest unity, the greatest overall strength, and give the most satisfaction to the viewer, have been those in which a guiding hand was imposed in every section of the film's many divisions.

I kind of want to learn how to direct TV. It's interesting.

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.

I would love to do something for TV... I wanna do 'Kavalier & Clay' on HBO as an eight-parter. It'll be so much better as a series, honestly.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.