Alfonso Cuaron Quotes

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Alfonso Cuaron

Profession : Director

Birth : November 28, 1961

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.

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Most people just half-watch TV. They watch TV while they are doing many other things in the environment of their home. So, what they are doing goes through their ears as much as through their eyes. In television, the narrative and characters are in the foreground of everything, because you are watching TV as you do other stuff.

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I love L.A. I always have such a great time in L.A. The way I kind of define me and L.A. is the noise of the factory doesn't let me sleep well.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Experiencing this film in 2-D is only getting about 20 percent of the experience of 'Gravity.'

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I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.

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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.

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For me, my films are not like my children. They are like my ex-wife. They gave me so much; I gave them so much; I loved them so much; we part ways, and it's OK, we part ways.

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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.

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There are fewer established rules in the way you tell a story for commercials than in features. It's a great little short story you get to play with.

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I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.

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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.

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I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.

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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.

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I was 8 when we landed on the moon. I was so into the space program as a kid. Eventually, I realized it was very unlikely that a Mexican kid in the early '70s was going to be an astronaut.

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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.

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