Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no… — Daniel Espinosa Coffee Copy Share Image
If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination. — Daniel Espinosa Imagination Copy Share Image
We've all done actions in our lives where we compromise what we believe in. And if we keep doing it, there's no… — Daniel Espinosa Believe Copy Share Image
Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding why our governments… — Daniel Espinosa Information Copy Share Image
If the crew is hit by the situation that we're trying to portray, I think we get a real and a stronger… — Daniel Espinosa I think Copy Share Image
I think the movie industry is a hard industry, but it is not that hard to be allowed to do what you… — Daniel Espinosa Film Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could… — Daniel Espinosa Go Copy Share Image
I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't make the right choice, it actually puts marks… — Daniel Espinosa Choice Copy Share Image
In editing, you really face what the movie is. When you shoot it, you have this illusion that you're making the masterpieces… — Daniel Espinosa Cutting Copy Share Image
I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people. — Daniel Espinosa Area Copy Share Image
For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it. — Daniel Espinosa Cinema Copy Share Image
I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground. — Daniel Espinosa Claustrophobia Copy Share Image
I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like 'Vertigo.' — Daniel Espinosa Always Copy Share Image
I have no idea how to start doing something that doesn't connect with me or my soul, somehow. — Daniel Espinosa Ideas Copy Share Image
When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie. — Daniel Espinosa Directing Copy Share Image
When I make a movie, I completely dive into it and I can't really take anything in at all, at that time. — Daniel Espinosa Dive Copy Share Image
Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing gets broken. It's almost like they're… — Daniel Espinosa Broken Copy Share Image
Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not… — Daniel Espinosa Cinema Copy Share Image
I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa… — Daniel Espinosa Africa Copy Share Image
I made this Swedish movie called 'Snabba Cash,' or 'Easy Money,' and it was shown at the Berlin Film Festival. A lot… — Daniel Espinosa American Copy Share Image
When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing… — Daniel Espinosa Come Copy Share Image
Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have… — Daniel Espinosa Europe Copy Share Image
Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay at home and… — Daniel Espinosa Better Copy Share Image
I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automatic charisma and was… — Daniel Espinosa Early Copy Share Image
If you don't feel a true passion through work, you can't do it. It's not possible for me. I've never done TV.… — Daniel Espinosa Done Copy Share Image
It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their agent, their agent… — Daniel Espinosa Actor Copy Share Image
When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even… — Daniel Espinosa Freedom Copy Share Image
I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the… — Daniel Espinosa Documentary Copy Share Image
I really like to have a coffee shop next door and be able to smoke a cigarette. I'm a city person; I… — Daniel Espinosa Able Copy Share Image
I don't like having hierarchical structures. So, everybody knows that I'm the boss but, from that, I don't like people to walk… — Daniel Espinosa Boss Copy Share Image
That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't.… — Daniel Espinosa Democratic Copy Share Image
I think a lot of directors nowadays come from the commercial world, which is about seduction, which has nothing to do with… — Daniel Espinosa Artist Copy Share Image
If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you have… — Daniel Espinosa Character Copy Share Image
All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it… — Daniel Espinosa Best Copy Share Image
It must have been fascinating for Bono to have Johnny Cash do a cover of his song, and hear how he translates… — Daniel Espinosa Director Copy Share Image
Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I always had to hide my… — Daniel Espinosa Always Copy Share Image
I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... but after making those… — Daniel Espinosa Boring Copy Share Image
