Alfonso Cuaron quotes

Alfonso Cuarón is a renowned Mexican film director, screenwriter, and producer, acclaimed for his visually inventive storytelling. His films, such as "Gravity," "Children of Men," and "Roma," have received numerous international awards. He is recognized as one of the most influential contemporary filmmakers in world cinema. Here are 27 of his quotes:

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one. (Alfonso Cuaron)
A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid. View quote
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I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. View quote
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I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government. View quote
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When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion. View quote
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I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again. View quote
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The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one. View quote
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I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but also to create a space in which the director calls the shots. View quote
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I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me. View quote
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I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy. View quote
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I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned to trust the material and the actors. (Alfonso Cuaron)
The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail. View quote
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When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal. View quote
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Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s. View quote
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The two real leads in 'Children of Men' are Clive Owen and the social environment. You know, this same movie without the social environment maybe is just like a generic chase movie. View quote
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In 'Gravity,' nearly everything is a metaphor for the main character. The way I tend to approach a film is that character and background are equally important; one informs the other. Here, Sandra Bullock is caught between Earth and the void of the universe, just floating there in between. We use the debris as a metaphor for adversity. View quote
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If you want to keep on being relevant as a director, I think you have to embrace the times. And with the times come technologies and formats. View quote
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'Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R. View quote
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If I would rescue one of my movies, it would be 'A Little Princess.' View quote
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I have my misgivings about 3-D. I don't like the lack of blacks and whites, how it dulls the image, how the color gets corrupted. I don't necessarily like the experience of having heavy glasses in front of me. View quote
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I have to say, 'Gravity' is better in 3-D, even though in 2-D the quality of the picture is better. But the 3-D is better. (Alfonso Cuaron)
I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design. View quote
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I learned there's an amazing unexplored territory in terms of narrative. Before, I thought the unexplored territory was the form, the way you shoot a movie. Now, I'm learning about the beautiful marriage between form and narrative. View quote
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I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'. View quote
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What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians? View quote
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Alfonso Cuaron

Alfonso Cuaron - Image
Photo: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: Mexican Director
Born: November 28, 1961
Quotes count: 27

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