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Stephen Hopkins

"It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another."

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Amber Hurdle

"I don't think you can contrive any sound."

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Amber Hurdle

"Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes."

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Amber Hurdle

"When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves."

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Amber Hurdle

"If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do."

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Amber Hurdle

"The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show."

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Amber Hurdle

"I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything."

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Amber Hurdle

"I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space."

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Amber Hurdle

"Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound."

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Amber Hurdle

"Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for."

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Amber Hurdle

"I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops."

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Stephen Hopkins
"If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well."

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Stephen Hopkins
"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."

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Stephen Hopkins
"Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people."

People

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Stephen Hopkins
"It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another."

Sound

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Stephen Hopkins
"There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make."

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Stephen Hopkins
"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."

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Stephen Hopkins
"I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience."

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Stephen Hopkins
"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."

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Stephen Hopkins
"To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me."

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Stephen Hopkins
"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."

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