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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One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
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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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People looking into Barack Obama's campaign contributions say that Obama may have received $3.3 million from abroad. Yeah. It turns out that broad is Oprah Winfrey.
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Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.
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My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.
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Some things in life need to be mysterious. Sometimes you need to just keep walking. … It’s hard for me to look at a great nation issuing these documents and sending them out to the world and thinking, oh, much good will come of that.
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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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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.
