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Consumer groups fought hard to provide investor protections for 'special entities' such as pension funds, schools, and municipalities who purchase swaps. No comparable protection exists in the futures market.


Daniel L. Doctoroff

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DANIEL ESPINOSA Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes...
DANIEL ESPINOSA If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you...
DANIEL ESPINOSA That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of i...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very g...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't mak...
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 thi...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.
DANIEL ESPINOSA I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like 'Vertigo.'
DANIEL ESPINOSA I made this Swedish movie called 'Snabba Cash,' or 'Easy Money,' and it was shown at...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automat...
DANIEL ESPINOSA For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.
DANIEL ESPINOSA Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I al...
DANIEL ESPINOSA It must have been fascinating for Bono to have Johnny Cash do a cover of his song, and hear how he t...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
DANIEL ESPINOSA If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitat...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience w...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.
DANIEL ESPINOSA