Stephen Hopkins Quotes

It's harder to make real audio than special effects audio.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.

I did sound for a number of years, so I know the pain of the sound mixer on a set where everybody was talking.

I'm really into the way sound works in film, and I did a little bit of sound design for theater in college.

It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create.

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

I don't think we'll ever use the same sound techniques.

Aame' is a new attempt. The entire film was shot using live sound technique.

Needless to say, I like to create a unique sound for each project I do.

The first time I experimented with sound design was on 'Fruitvale Station,' where I recorded the BART train and manipulated it.

I always like to do sound design, and in movies, you have more leeway with that, but I don't really notice that sound design is being used in TV other than just location sound.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

With animated film, you have to create the sonic world; there's nothing there. You get to color things in more and you're allowed to overreach yourself a little bit more, and it's great fun.

Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.

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

Film-making was not at all what I had expected.

I'm not really a knob-twiddler. I always work with an engineer; I'm not super hands-on when it comes to mixing boards and computers. I'm much more about what I'm hearing and what it needs to be like. I deal with songs and ideas and instruments.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.