101 Quotes by Sam Esmail

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    What I'm about to tell you is top secret. A conspiracy bigger than all of us. There's a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I'm talking about the guys no one knows about, the ones that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission. And now I think they're following me.

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    'Pi' was one of my favorite films growing up because I thought it employed paranoia and voice-over, and also because it used this unreliable narrator in a very fascinating way.

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

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    I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

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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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    I always suspend logic for emotion. If it feels real, or it feels like what I'm going for, we should abandon reality a little bit and go for that. I'm not a documentarian. We're not trying to shoot things for naturalism.

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