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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.
Alfonso Cuaron
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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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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.
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I think it's always important to give immediate positive reinforcement.
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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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If I would rescue one of my movies, it would be 'A Little Princess.'
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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.
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We're born first humans then after they stamp our passport.
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You can write a whole fiction, and you're talking to people who have gone through that, in real life. But the truth of it is that when you're talking to those people, you don't care about your movie anymore. You just want to hear about what they have gone through. You want all of the details. It's amazing.
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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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You have to be very focused about the music that you have inside.
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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.
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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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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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The great thing about the moon landing is that my grandmother got the first color TV in order to be able to see the moon landing that was in black and white.
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What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?
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Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.
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I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.
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I find it very stupid that teenagers could only see caricatures of teenagers but they couldn't see films that you try to be a truthful context, a truthful portrayal of teenagers.
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