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Alfonso Cuaron (Film Director)

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.
— Alfonso Cuaron people
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.
— Alfonso Cuaron faith
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.
— Alfonso Cuaron man
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.
— Alfonso Cuaron good
If I would rescue one of my movies, it would be 'A Little Princess.'
— Alfonso Cuaron movies
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.
— Alfonso Cuaron time
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 world
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.
— Alfonso Cuaron art
It's a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could have cut a G-rated version of 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' that would have pleased the American ratings board, but it would have been five minutes long.
— Alfonso Cuaron sex
It's seldom that you find great moments in television. Usually you remember - in 'Breaking Bad' or any of these other great shows - you remember situations or characters. Not moments. But I have to say, I can make the same argument for mainstream movies, which have bad narratives and also no memorable moments.
— Alfonso Cuaron men
'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.
— Alfonso Cuaron war
When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create those moments that are beyond narrative, that are almost an abstraction of that moment that hits your psyche.
— Alfonso Cuaron men
What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?
— Alfonso Cuaron travel
Dramatically, the moment in 'Gravity' that was hardest to nail down is when Ryan is in the Soyuz capsule and she realizes that she's out of fuel. That's when the character's arc gets defined.
— Alfonso Cuaron men
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.
— Alfonso Cuaron hope
Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.
— Alfonso Cuaron
I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.
— Alfonso Cuaron world
I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.
— Alfonso Cuaron
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
Once I finish a film, I don't ever see it again. Never ever. I have never seen any of my films since I finished them.
— Alfonso Cuaron sin
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.
— Alfonso Cuaron money
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.
— Alfonso Cuaron technology
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.
— Alfonso Cuaron love
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.
— Alfonso Cuaron marriage
The reason I like tracking shots has to do more with a sense of real time than anything else. In 'Gravity,' the use of tracking - of long extended takes - was partially because we wanted to film it like an IMAX-style Discovery Channel documentary. You don't have the luxury of cuts when you're in space. The camera is there; you're just observing.
— Alfonso Cuaron time

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