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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Coming from the industry and maintaining contacts with producers and directors, I am very well aware that costs associated with movie production are a major factor in determining where films get made.
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We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old '50's B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones.
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You have to be able to accept failure to get better.
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America had Russia wrapped around it little pinky through the whole '90s. We did everything you told us. And we were eager to do more and more. The whole nation - Russian nation was like, 'Tell us what else we can do to please you. We want to be like you. We love you.' And then in 1999, bam. You bomb Yugoslavia. And that was the end of it.
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'For Those Who Can Tell No Tales' is a story of memory and the energy of places that remain full of drama, pain, and denial.
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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.
