14 Daniel Espinosa Quotes for You to Enjoy

Daniel Espinosa

Swedish Director

Born: Mar 23, 1977

Always Director Good People Think You

Related authors: Alfred Hitchcock David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen

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

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 have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground. Daniel Espinosa

Panic Severe Above More Feet Than Six Ground

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

When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.' Daniel Espinosa

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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. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to. Daniel Espinosa

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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people. Daniel Espinosa

People Area Come Up Stockholm Grew Working-Class

When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden. Daniel Espinosa

It must have been fascinating for Bono to have Johnny Cash do a cover of his song, and hear how he translates the words that he has used. And it would be fascinating to see a great director do his take on my work. Daniel Espinosa

I was a horrible athlete. Daniel Espinosa

Athlete Horrible

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