Alfonso Cuaron

I was 8 when we landed on the moon. I was so into the space program as a kid. Eventually, I realized…

— Alfonso Cuaron

My mom, she was, she studied chemistry. And later on she changed and majored, she changed later in her career, in her…

— Alfonso Cuaron

I love that process in which there is no safety net. Then the actor also can allow mistakes, because there's no such…

— Alfonso Cuaron

For me, my films are not like my children. They are like my ex-wife. They gave me so much; I gave them…

— Alfonso Cuaron

I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but…

— Alfonso Cuaron

When I finish a movie, I don’t ever see the movie again. The moment I finish the color correction and the mix,…

— Alfonso Cuaron

Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.

— Alfonso Cuaron

I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie…

— 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…

— Alfonso Cuaron

I find it very stupid that teenagers could only see caricatures of teenagers but they couldn't see films that you try to…

— Alfonso Cuaron

This is the thing I have with awards: If awards would make your movie more pretty, I would really get super excited…

— Alfonso Cuaron

I have my set rigged with the biggest sound system possible and have a mini jack for my iPod attached to my…

— Alfonso Cuaron

I have my misgivings about 3-D. I don't like the lack of blacks and whites, how it dulls the image, how the…

— Alfonso Cuaron

“The way I see it, there are only two possible outcomes. Either I make it down there in one piece and I…

— Alfonso Cuaron

Style is just an impression. Style itself is hollow. Style, its ok style as long as it is part of a language.…

— Alfonso Cuaron

The most important thematics in humanity I think that are completely universal and completely relatable from one person to the other. As…

— Alfonso Cuaron

The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody…

— Alfonso Cuaron

As a director, you're only as good as your collaborators. You surround with collaborators that are going to understand what you're trying…

— Alfonso Cuaron

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

— Alfonso Cuaron

I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned…

— Alfonso Cuaron

Learn from your experience shooting your film, and then move on to the next.

— Alfonso Cuaron

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie,…

— Alfonso Cuaron

Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.…

— Alfonso Cuaron

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

— Alfonso Cuaron

If I would rescue one of my movies, it would be 'A Little Princess.'

— Alfonso Cuaron