Samuel Hopkins's Quotes

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

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

We shoot double episodes in 15 days in Los Angeles.

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

When I was thinking of casting this, I thought, What roles would Sellers be playing now?

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.

Because of all the concurrent stories going in 24 and its fast pace, it can be complicated in terms of the story, so I thought sound could help with the storytelling.

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.

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.