Alfonso Cuaron Quotes
I learned there's an amazing unexplored territory in terms of narrative. Before, I thought the unexplored territory was the form, the way you shoot a movie. Now, I'm learning about the beautiful marriage between form and narrative.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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You should never ask, 'What would the readers like now?' Instead, you should ask, 'What would I like if I was a reader?' And then you must trust your own mind.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.
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Don't confuse honours with achievement.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.
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Being embraced by the British people is a beautiful compliment for me. It feels very special.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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God gave me everything I have.
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Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.
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I learned there's an amazing unexplored territory in terms of narrative. Before, I thought the unexplored territory was the form, the way you shoot a movie. Now, I'm learning about the beautiful marriage between form and narrative.
