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Alfonso Cuaron
Mexican Director
Born: Nov 28, 1961
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Related authors: Alfred Hitchcock David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
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
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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. Alfonso Cuaron
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If I would rescue one of my movies, it would be 'A Little Princess.' Alfonso Cuaron
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I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again. Alfonso Cuaron
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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
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Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s. Alfonso Cuaron
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Space fascinated me because I'm from the generation that saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon live on TV. I was 7 at the time. Also, 'Lost in Space' was one of my favorite shows on TV back then. Alfonso Cuaron
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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
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Experiencing this film in 2-D is only getting about 20 percent of the experience of 'Gravity.' Alfonso Cuaron
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This is the thing I have with awards: If awards would make your movie more pretty, I would really get super excited about it. But your movie's done. You get awards, you don't get awards... They don't make your movie more ugly or pretty. Alfonso Cuaron
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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. Alfonso Cuaron
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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. Alfonso Cuaron
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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. Alfonso Cuaron
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. Alfonso Cuaron
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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. Alfonso Cuaron
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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. Alfonso Cuaron
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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. Alfonso Cuaron
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