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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.

From Daniel Espinosa

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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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.

From 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.'

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Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding why our governments are making the decisions that they are?

From Daniel Espinosa

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.

From Daniel Espinosa

If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you have to make sure you keep pushing the tempo.

From Daniel Espinosa

If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.

From Daniel Espinosa

I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.

From Daniel Espinosa

Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have opinions. In Hollywood there are, like, 20 snakes.

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