Stephen Hopkins Quotes

You really get to direct the movie three times when it comes to the action sequences and the set pieces.

For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film.

What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.

I'd never really shot action scenes before, but I realized early on that is very much like shooting choreography and dance.

I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.

Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.

So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.

The art of stunt-making is not about falling down; it's about getting the shot. Creating stunts is creating heroes.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.

I personally think a fight scene is the most cinematic thing you can witness because all the elements of filmmaking come together, you know, with the camera speed changes, editing, make up effects and general smoke and mirrors of trying to make it look like you are hitting someone when you're not. It's filmmaking in it's purest form, I think.

I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!'

I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little scenes. But for those two little scenes they had 400 extras, upside-down stunt cars, and a fire brigade.

As a second unit director, you're entrusted to shoot the action sequences. On every movie, it's slightly different.

Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.

Justin Lin has just been exceptional with what he does with that vehicular action.

I couldn't do what I did in 'Deadpool' without 'Transporter,' categorically.

There are a lot of big action movies that we've worked on where the attitude has been, 'Let's just get through this scene.' Then you get those jumpy, what-were-they-thinking action sequences.

In an action film, you think of things that are almost impossible to do and yet you have to manage to show them as being possible on film.

Most of music videos were short films - they had dialogue, action sequences. I shot with cranes and helicopters. I wanted to created cinema-like moments.

I love doing films, action films, anything I can get into that is produced at a high level, really use my skills.

Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.

The first set I remember was 'Ghostbusters.' It was a scene in which the street erupted. I remember even at seven years old thinking, 'Wow, if you direct a movie, you can break the streets of New York.'

I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low key 3D film.