Alfonso Cuaron Quotes

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.

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• 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.

  

  Alfonso Cuaron
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