Alfonso Cuaron Quotes
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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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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Every day that I live, I try to find the beauty in things.
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I think that you can love people without it being the great love.
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I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
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I am not here to beat anyone. I am here to make a name for myself, and I am glad to work with great directors. I don't believe in the term 'next superstar.'
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What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
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I'm not sure my achievements have been 'great.'
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I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.
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I think 'Pretty Little Liars' is going to be hugely popular for adults, for kids, for girls, for guys, you know, something for everyone to look at, and the stories are going to be great. There's suspense every week. The friendship is really fun to watch. I think it's going to have something for everybody.
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And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.
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Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
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Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.
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I think actors, because we're in the world of the characters and the movie, are more isolated, and it always really fun to wake up and be a family with the entire crew.
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Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.
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Just keep on going and keep believing in your own original vision, no matter what odds you have to overcome. And especially don't be stopped by your own fears.
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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.
