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Alfonso Cuaron Quotes

Mexican - Director | November 28, 1961 -

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.

Good Learn You Bad Reason See

For me, my films are not like my children. They are like my ex-wife. They gave me so much; I gave them so much; I loved them so much; we part ways, and it's OK, we part ways.

Children Me Loved Like Ex-Wife Much

I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.

Never Finish See Again Movie Once

When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create those moments that are beyond narrative, that are almost an abstraction of that moment that hits your psyche.

Moment Experience Doing Moments You

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.

Challenges Learn Result You New

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.

Journey Thankful Believe Design Born

Once I finish a film, I don't ever see it again. Never ever. I have never seen any of my films since I finished them.

Never Finish See Seen Film Again

When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.

Work People Feel You Want Tell

I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.

Challenges Short Attention New Guess

Experiencing this film in 2-D is only getting about 20 percent of the experience of 'Gravity.'

Experience Gravity Film Only Percent

In 'Gravity,' nearly everything is a metaphor for the main character. The way I tend to approach a film is that character and background are equally important; one informs the other. Here, Sandra Bullock is caught between Earth and the void of the universe, just floating there in between. We use the debris as a metaphor for adversity.

Adversity Character Universe Earth

Dramatically, the moment in 'Gravity' that was hardest to nail down is when Ryan is in the Soyuz capsule and she realizes that she's out of fuel. That's when the character's arc gets defined.

Character Moment Down Gravity She

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