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I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.

~Daniel Espinosa

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For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.

~Daniel Espinosa

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Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.

~Daniel Espinosa

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Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay at home and watch TV and do something else. Move into the woods and live with the trees.

~Daniel Espinosa

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I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... but after making those movies, I thought, 'I wouldn't watch my own movies when I was 16, and my buddies where I came from wouldn't watch my movies, because they were boring.'

~Daniel Espinosa

Topics: After Because Boring Buddies Came Critically Did Made Making Money Movies My Own Own Successful Those Thought Two Watch Were Where I Came

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When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.

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It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their agent, their agent calls their manager, the manager calls back, the actor sends someone to the manager... then you get, 'Yeah, yeah, I'd love to have dinner at six,' and all I wanted was coffee! It can take, like, six days to get coffee.

~Daniel Espinosa

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I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automatic charisma and was a very verbal person, he always played those more silent characters and played within the scene and never overacted.

~Daniel Espinosa

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I made this Swedish movie called 'Snabba Cash,' or 'Easy Money,' and it was shown at the Berlin Film Festival. A lot of American studios, agents, and people like that saw it there and liked it.

~Daniel Espinosa

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I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like 'Vertigo.'

~Daniel Espinosa

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Biography

Nationality: Swedish

Type: Director

Born: March 23rd, 1977

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