101 Quotes by Sam Esmail

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

My parents were very strict Muslims, and they weren't shy about showing it.

The world is so heavily influenced by technology, and it has started to feel like it's not on solid ground. The world has become unreliable, unknowable. Facts are vulnerable, and things you have come to rely on are no longer there.

Looking back at 'Taxi Driver' or, really, any of the Martin Scorsese films, he really filmed New York City in a way that I saw New York City.

I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.

I've seen shows that start to go down the path of fan service, and it really diminishes the quality.

It's not necessarily bad that you have angst or you have anger - it's what you do with it, how you interpret it into something profoundly moving.

What resonates with me whenever I watch a great movie or TV show is the balance of inevitability and unpredictability. And it's a very delicate balance.

I think people are more than their heritage or their skin colour or their name or how they grew up.