Alfonso Cuaron Quotes

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• Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.
• I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• If I would rescue one of my movies, it would be 'A Little Princess.'
• I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.
• 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.…
• 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…
• 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…
• I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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