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
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I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.
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'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.
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Experiencing this film in 2-D is only getting about 20 percent of the experience of 'Gravity.'
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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.
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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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I was 8 when we landed on the moon. I was so into the space program as a kid. Eventually, I realized it was very unlikely that a Mexican kid in the early '70s was going to be an astronaut.
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It's a myth for our times, ... You read about Fudge and the Ministry of Magic -- that's Tony Blair! And Guantanamo is not that different from Azkaban. There are Dementors there, too.
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I understand the bad rap that 3-D is getting because the conversions are crappy and because the films aren't designed for 3-D. It's a completely different medium.
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This is the thing I have with awards: If awards would make your movie more pretty, I would really get super excited about it. But your movie's done. You get awards, you don't get awards... They don't make your movie more ugly or pretty.
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Space fascinated me because I'm from the generation that saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon live on TV. I was 7 at the time. Also, 'Lost in Space' was one of my favorite shows on TV back then.