Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuarón Orozcois a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer and editor best known for his dramas A Little Princessand Y Tu Mamá También, the fantasy film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and science fiction thrillers Children of Menand Gravity. Cuarón is the first Latin American director to win an Oscar for Best Directing...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth28 November 1961
CountryMexico
alone few films knew lights minutes nerd theater
I knew early on that I was a nerd and that films were my refuge. Those first few minutes before the lights went off, and you're alone in the theater waiting, were really pleasurable.
fewer great
There are fewer established rules in the way you tell a story for commercials than in features. It's a great little short story you get to play with.
space way directors
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.
technology tools
Technology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools.
long style language
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.
firsts stamps born
We're born first humans then after they stamp our passport.
challenges world next
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 for what you learn for the next one.
grandmother black-and-white moon
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.
challenges attention world
I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.
people needs void
When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.
want failing more-money
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.
fighting want rooms
Historically, there is a fight between the sound designer and the composer. You see them in the mixing room and they're always fighting because the composer wants the music to be heard and the sound designer wants the sound to be heard.
fantastic tales cautionary-tales
Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.
thinking long humanity
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.