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
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.
focused
You have to be very focused about the music that you have inside.
kids technology law
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.
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.
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.
trying want sticks
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.
written
I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.
children real men
The two real leads in 'Children of Men' are Clive Owen and the social environment. You know, this same movie without the social environment maybe is just like a generic chase movie.
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.
princess littles would-be
If I would rescue one of my movies, it would be 'A Little Princess.'
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.
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.
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'.
fantastic tales cautionary-tales
Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.