Alejandro Amenabar Quotes

Alejandro Amenabar — Spanish Director born on March 31, 1972,

Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos, commonly known as Alejandro Amenábar , is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and composer. Among other honors, he has won 9 Goyas, two European Film Award and an Oscar. He has written or co-written the screenplays to all six of his movies and composed almost all of the soundtracks... (wikipedia)

An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

Alejandro Amenabar Quotes

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