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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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Alfonso Cuaron
Age: 54
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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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Technology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools.
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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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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 this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy.
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Learn from your experience shooting your film, and then move on to the next.
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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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If I would rescue one of my movies, it would be 'A Little Princess.'
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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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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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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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I really believe there is the possibility of something great that can happen in the right hands.
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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 the factory doesn't let me sleep well.
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