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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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Alfonso Cuaron
Age: 54
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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 a space in which the director calls the shots.
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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 material and the actors.
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The long takes process doesn't allow for that many takes. In the past I have shot over 50 takes of different shots. Sometimes you end up using take 64, sometimes take four.
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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.
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As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. And my own passion was that I wanted to be a film director. I realized that being an astronaut was not going to be an option, so I said, Well, I'm going to be a director and do films in space.
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There is a certain thing that you have to just stick to the plan, stick to what you want to do, and you try to work with studios and executives that they get it.
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I have my set rigged with the biggest sound system possible and have a mini jack for my iPod attached to my director's chair. I find playing music is a very direct way to communicate with actors and the crew, especially those crew members who are on the periphery of the set. I like dancing on set too, it's a good way to release tension.
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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.
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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.
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I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.
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My mom, she was, she studied chemistry. And later on she changed and majored, she changed later in her career, in her life and studied philosophy and then she did a perfect clash, connection between chemistry and philosophy and she became a witch.
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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.
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The most important thematics in humanity I think that are completely universal and completely relatable from one person to the other. As long as, one more time going to back to the thematic, as long as you're truthful to that thematic, you can trust that that is going to transcend.
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If I would rescue one of my movies, it would be 'A Little Princess.'
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Learn from your experience shooting your film, and then move on to the next.
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Story is important but the most important is the theme and how you're going to convey theme cinematically. I'm a believer also.
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I think it's always important to give immediate positive reinforcement.
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You have to be very focused about the music that you have inside.
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No 'rules.' What are you, British or something? I guess I'm too nice... No wonder people take advantage of me.
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Every film is difficult. Making films, you're always going to have problems, there's always going to be challenges.
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