Sam Esmail

The experience you're going to take the audience on is as important as the story you're trying to tell. And that experience…

— Sam Esmail

With TV season structures - and I'm a huge TV watcher - you look at shows like 'Breaking Bad,' which is my…

— Sam Esmail

Even great actors who transform who they are still go to a really honest place; I think that's sort of that special…

— Sam Esmail

I'm not in the business of adapting things that are popular for the sake of just getting it on the screen. I…

— Sam Esmail

If your loved ones are far away, and they're uploading pictures, you feel like that's enough: these loose strands through email, through…

— Sam Esmail

I had a funny last name, and I didn't look like everybody else, and I got faced with a lot of racism.

— Sam Esmail

Movies and television show build on top of each other, succeed one another. In a large way, in terms of filmmaking aesthetics,…

— Sam Esmail

The story of 'Mr. Robot' is really about this guy who's lonely - who's alone and feels so disconnected from the world.

— Sam Esmail

Music is everything to me. It's the heart and soul of a movie or TV show to me because it can be…

— Sam Esmail

I use voiceover just like I use dialogue. There's a way to give out information or give out insight to the character…

— Sam Esmail

“Oh, I don't know. Is it that we collectively thought Steve Jobs was a great man, even when we knew he made…

— Sam Esmail

It's weird; my fascination with tech was kind of combined with the fact that my parents would never pay for anything. It…

— Sam Esmail

Growing up, my parents were very much about the Egyptian culture. They never really wanted to assimilate in American culture.

— Sam Esmail

Girls rejected me a lot.

— Sam Esmail

It's not necessarily bad that you have angst or you have anger - it's what you do with it, how you interpret…

— Sam Esmail

You have to have that core creative team around you who's going to support your vision, and challenge and evolve it.

— Sam Esmail

When you don't have a main character that's flawed, I don't know how you relate to that person.

— Sam Esmail

I'm not a huge fan of very plotty shows. I'm much more of a fan of character-driven stories.

— Sam Esmail

I have tremendous social anxiety.

— Sam Esmail

I don't want to watch a show or a movie about the guy who doesn't have any problems, who is sort of…

— Sam Esmail

I could watch 'There Will Be Blood' all day long, and Daniel Plainview is a terrible person - but he's still compelling…

— Sam Esmail

It's strange not to allow the actor some input and breathing room into what was written on the page - it is…

— Sam Esmail

I went to film school to direct.

— Sam Esmail

“Is any of it real? I mean look at this. Look at it! A world built on fantasy. Synthetic emotions in the…

— Sam Esmail

When I first created the world of 'Mr. Robot,' I thought it would be a niche television series with a small, cult…

— Sam Esmail