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Quotes by Alfonso Cuaron - (15 quotes)

Alfonso Cuaron - From the Children category:

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. (Alfonso Cuaron)

Alfonso Cuaron - From the Fantasy category:

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. (Alfonso Cuaron)

Alfonso Cuaron - From the Finishing category:

I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again. (Alfonso Cuaron)

Alfonso Cuaron - From the Focus category:

You have to be very focused about the music you have inside. (Alfonso Cuaron)

Alfonso Cuaron - From the Form category:

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)

Alfonso Cuaron - From the Hope category:

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)

Alfonso Cuaron - From the Imagination category:

You have a first image. You just know that it is always going to be there. You don't question that. (Alfonso Cuaron)

Alfonso Cuaron - From the Interest category:

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

Alfonso Cuaron - From the Jealousy category:

When I learned to switch jealousy for admiration, it unblocked a lot of things. (Alfonso Cuaron)

Alfonso Cuaron - From the Money category:

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)

Alfonso Cuaron - From the Progress category:

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)

Alfonso Cuaron - From the Style category:

Style is just an impression. Style itself is hollow. Style, its ok style as long as it is part of a language. Style for style itself is just something very hollow. (Alfonso Cuaron)

Alfonso Cuaron - From the Survival category:

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)

Alfonso Cuaron - From the Technology category:

Technology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools. (Alfonso Cuaron)

Alfonso Cuaron - From the Trust category:

- on his film Roma, 2018
I was just going to go for it. I wanted this to be about trusting these moments, whatever was going to come out. I didn't want to be thinking about narrative, and this is the first project where I didn't want to have any references. (Alfonso Cuaron)