Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron

I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.

Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.

Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron

In 'Gravity,' nearly everything is a metaphor for the main character. The way I tend to approach a film is that character and background are equally important; one informs the other. Here, Sandra Bullock is caught between Earth and the void of the universe, just floating there in between. We use the debris as a metaphor for adversity.

Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron

When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create those moments that are beyond narrative, that are almost an abstraction of that moment that hits your psyche.

Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron

I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.

Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron

When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.

Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron

I knew early on that I was a nerd and that films were my refuge. Those first few minutes before the lights went off, and you're alone in the theater waiting, were really pleasurable.

Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron

I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy.

Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron

If you want to keep on being relevant as a director, I think you have to embrace the times. And with the times come technologies and formats.

Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron

There are fewer established rules in the way you tell a story for commercials than in features. It's a great little short story you get to play with.

Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron

The two real leads in 'Children of Men' are Clive Owen and the social environment. You know, this same movie without the social environment maybe is just like a generic chase movie.

Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron

'Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.

Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron

What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?

Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron

I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but also to create a space in which the director calls the shots.

Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron

For me, my films are not like my children. They are like my ex-wife. They gave me so much; I gave them so much; I loved them so much; we part ways, and it's OK, we part ways.

Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron

If I would rescue one of my movies, it would be 'A Little Princess.'

Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron

I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.

Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron

I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.

Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron

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.