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
important stories theme
Story is important but the most important is the theme and how you're going to convey theme cinematically. I'm a believer also
I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.
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.
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.
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.
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.
beautiful narrative territory
I learned there's an amazing unexplored territory in terms of narrative. Before, I thought the unexplored territory was the form, the way you shoot a movie. Now, I'm learning about the beautiful marriage between form and narrative.
challenges attention world
I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.
past long different
The long takes process doesn't allow for that many takes. In the past I have shot over 50 takes of different shots. Sometimes you end up using take 64, sometimes take four.
technology tools
Technology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools.
firsts stamps born
We're born first humans then after they stamp our passport.
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.
nice people wonder
No 'rules.' What are you, British or something? I guess I'm too nice... No wonder people take advantage of me.
sex cutting long
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.