Daniel Espinosa - I want to challenge my cinematography...

I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.

Daniel Espinosa

Biography

Author Profession: Director

Nationality: Swedish

Born: March 23, 1977

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Challenge, Cinematography, Editing, Want

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

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You Gangster World Top

When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.

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Life Freedom You Imagination

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.

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Gangster Ending Movies Will

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.'

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Money My Own Thought Boring

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.

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Love Coffee You Dinner

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

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Good Me Important Will

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.

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Never Movies Person Always

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.

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Money People Easy Like

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

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Loved Always Like Did

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

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Feet More Ground Above

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.

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Home You Better Live

I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.

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Africa Like Different Places

I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.

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Man You Think Energy

I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't make the right choice, it actually puts marks not just on their souls but also their bodies. That means that you can visualize existential questions.

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