Since then, he has directed around ten feature films and TV series, working with actors like Noomi Rapace, Alexander Skarsgård, Sofia Helin, Mischa Barton, Mads Mikkelsen, and Rebecca De Mornay.
According to an interview in Aftonbladet, Daniels grandmother, Saga Sjöberg, introduced him to filmmaking when at the age of six she gave him a Super 8 film camera for Christmas.
In 1993, while attending Kulturama Film Academy in Sweden, Daniel and actor Liam Norberg used the schools cameras at night and made the first of numerous Scandinavian hits, Sökarna (English:The Searchers) in 1993.
The main actor Liam Norberg was arrested at the premiere for the film for the biggest robbery in Northern Europe[citation needed].
While some of the cast went to prison, Daniel made Cry, an urban Romeo & Juliet that was also hit the Box Office and knocked off films like The Lion King' from the #1 spot.
He was invited to Los Angeles to continue studying with De Bont who was filming Basic Instinct and Twister where Daniel simultaneously enrolled at the Judith Weston Academy for Directors and Actors in Santa Monica.
In 2005, he wrote the screenplay together with Reidar Jönsson to the upcoming film Hair of the Dog, a follow-up to the Oscar nominated My Life as a Dog as well as producing Rånarna (English title: Blank Point) in 2003, Universal Pictures first Scandinavian local production starring Mikael Persbrandt and Sofia Helin and Exit in 2006 starring Mads Mikkelsen and Alexander Skarsgård.