Alfonso Cuaron Quotes
The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they have to remember Canelo.
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I really want to keep modelling, but it's not my number one goal in life. But it's so fun. I love doing it; it's just that - it's not like I just want to be a model when I'm older.
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Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
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There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.
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I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, 'I'm going to ace this.' It's just not who I am.
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Most of the reason we don’t do things is because we’re afraid to fail. I just made a decision one day that I was not not going to do things in my life because of fear.
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My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'
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God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.
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We're mortal - which is to say, we're ignorant, stupid, and sinful - but those are only handicaps. Our pride is that nevertheless, now and then, we do our best. A few times we succeed. What more dare we ask for?
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The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.
