Jon Hopkins Quotes

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

I don't have a favorite genre. I love to work and live vicariously through every character. It's all about trying to bring the character to life and get the story across in a way that resonates with the audience. It's always interesting and challenging in a gratifying and unique way.

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me.

It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the things that come out of my mind vocally. And to be able to produce vocals and give people my point of view musically. And to be able to sit in the crowd and see people sing the song that I wrote, it's an amazing feeling.

I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

The reason I think the shows I do are successful with a wider public is because they tap into something that's beyond dance and is about being told a story. That's what people want.

I've also shot plenty of films with very small audiences - 'The Sun Also Rises.' I love that film, but I didn't capture the imagination of the audience. I don't know why.

There is no good or bad cinema, there are films that connect either less or more with audience.

When you're a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you're writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you're an artist, you can sing whatever you want.

During 'Torches,' I was more concerned with communicating the spirit of the song than the actual lyrics.

With Quentin Tarantino, he makes movies imagining himself as the audience. To be specific and true to what he wants resonates to people who like his movies.

The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.

My films are like drinking a good beer, but pleasure doesn't mean that it cannot change someone's point of view.

We feel it's really interesting to see how our music translates to such a broad audience.

That's my job as an actor - to go on and try to do the work so subtle and so fine and specific that the memories will linger for a long time.

Whatever films I make, the mandate is that it should touch the audiences and engage them from the first scene.

When an actor constructs reality, it has to be riveting and entertaining. There has to be an emotional connect with the audience.

As a filmmaker, I want to bring some value, some thought in the mind of my audience. When I embark on the journey of storytelling, I am an explorer.

I'd rather have Ben Affleck feeling something than twenty minutes of punching CGI Zod. You want moments that resonate with your audience.

Musicians are like a preacher, a teacher, an actor. You are the mediator who can transfer the energy of beautiful music to the others.

Cinema is a director's medium; it's his story and his vision. If it's a good story, people will connect to it.