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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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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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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Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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If there's something in the kitchen I like, it must be eaten. I try not to leave any snacks I wouldn't want to eat on a daily basis in the cupboard.
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'If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.'
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I'm just a hard worker, and I think that you don't need to have age to be a hard worker.
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Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
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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.
