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 Read Quote
I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I’m more than six feet above ground. Daniel Espinosa Read Quote
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 Read Quote
For me, it’s important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it. Daniel Espinosa Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how to get the money to do that. Daniel Espinosa Read Quote
If you just storyboard something, you’ve already planned it, and you’re stuck in the limitations of your imagination. Daniel Espinosa Read Quote
