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Stephen Hopkins

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

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Donna Grant

"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."

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Donna Grant

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

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Donna Grant

"Looper is another great film."

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Donna Grant

"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."

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Donna Grant

"It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film."

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Donna Grant

"This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased."

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Donna Grant

"So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally."

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Donna Grant

"Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in."

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Stephen Hopkins
"I had no special effects, no monsters running around, nothing blew up; those things are all things I've done so many times that they lose their allure after a while."

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Stephen Hopkins
"Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys."

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Stephen Hopkins
"I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done."

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

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Stephen Hopkins
"We use a lot of source music on some shows and none on others."

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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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Stephen Hopkins
"I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face."

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

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Stephen Hopkins
"It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this."

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