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 first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.
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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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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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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 didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.
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My first movie was totally improvised.
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I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together.
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Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy... individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.
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At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone.
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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.
