Sam Esmail Quotes

Sam Esmail

Profession : Director

Birth : September 17, 1977

I did not love going out to parties or even get-togethers, really - I went to the movies, which, if you think about it, is an isolating experience anyway - and this was because I had anxiety about interacting with people.

Sam Esmail

'Mr. Robot' is more directly about technology, and 'Homecoming' deals more with the pharmaceutical industry, but I think they're all part and parcel of this growing sense that things are happening behind the scenes at our expense, and we're not aware of it.

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I love when a protagonist and antagonist can find common ground.

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For shows that are hyper-serialized, it just seems to make more sense to follow a feature film model than follow a television model, which was set up more for a procedural type of show.

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I'm not here to say that I want to change the TV industry.

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I don't cover my scenes. We approach it visually. Sometimes we go out of our way to do awkward blocking so that we can tell whatever the emotional heartbeat is of that scene in the most interesting way possible.

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I rip off of every movie and TV show I've ever seen in my life.

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I'm a film nerd.

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That's what I did growing up. Other than being on the computer, I was watching TV and movies. I make no apologies.

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Movies and television show build on top of each other, succeed one another. In a large way, in terms of filmmaking aesthetics, they evolve because they can't help but be a consequence of all the movies and TV shows that came before it.

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I'm not in the business of adapting things that are popular for the sake of just getting it on the screen. I think there has to be a vital reason.

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I remember growing up in suburban New Jersey, and all the computer stores were like, 'Motherboard Mayhem' and all these cheesy names.

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People thought I looked weird, that I talked weird.

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I don't want to watch a show or a movie about the guy who doesn't have any problems, who is sort of a goodie two shoes and just does everything morally right, because that's not the person I relate to. That's not who I am. That's not what anyone is.

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I'm controlling over anything I create. I'm very precious about it.

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The experience you're going to take the audience on is as important as the story you're trying to tell. And that experience needs to excite me so much that I am desperate to share it.

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

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I love reading about other people's world view.

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

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

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