Alfonso Cuaron Quotes

Alfonso Cuaron — Mexican Director born on November 28, 1961,

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer and editor best known for his dramas A Little Princess and Y Tu Mamá También , the fantasy film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban , and science fiction thrillers Children of Men and Gravity . Cuarón is the first Mexican director to win an Academy Award for Best Directing... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you want to keep on being relevant as a director, I think you have to embrace the times. And with the times come technologies and formats.

Alfonso Cuaron Quotes

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