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
moving shooting next
Learn from your experience shooting your film, and then move on to the next.
voice historical stories
I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.
next the-next-one reason
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.
fighting trying directors
As a director, you're only as good as your collaborators. You surround with collaborators that are going to understand what you're trying to do. Not only that, they're going to push and fight for what you're trying to do.
awards firsts mama
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.
editing actors crafts
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.
thinking important democracy
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.
quality gravity
I have to say, 'Gravity' is better in 3-D, even though in 2-D the quality of the picture is better. But the 3-D is better.
written
I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.
sleep noise way
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.
mistake safety actors
I love that process in which there is no safety net. Then the actor also can allow mistakes, because there's no such a thing as a mistake. You're working with good actors, that thing that starts as a mistake becomes actually the life of what is going to follow in the scene. I find that it is fantastic, and for me it is easier than for the actors.
color glasses heavy
I have my misgivings about 3-D. I don't like the lack of blacks and whites, how it dulls the image, how the color gets corrupted. I don't necessarily like the experience of having heavy glasses in front of me.
princess littles would-be
If I would rescue one of my movies, it would be 'A Little Princess.'
nice people wonder
No 'rules.' What are you, British or something? I guess I'm too nice... No wonder people take advantage of me.