Alfonso Cuaron Quotes

You need the right people to kind of help make these things real.

Certainly as a director you want to be working with people who are on the same page as you and that you can trust and get along with.

You've got to have confidence and trust in your cast. You have to have confidence and trust in your director, in your editor. It's such a team effort; I really think you have to pull yourself out of it and just trust. I think the number one thing you can do is just trust everyone around you.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts.

The idea, as a director, is to be able to bring everybody on board and to inspire and give energy to everybody and to explain specific color, specific ambience. I need to be very precise, but I think I'm a better director when I'm more a channeler than a dictator.

Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to add to the work that has already been done and will be done. You're just part of a team. I never feel competitive about acting.

You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.

I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.

Your teammates will stretch your vision or choke your dream.

I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it.

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

The best part of being married is, everything we face in life, we face as a team. I don't do a thing - professionally or personally - without discussing it with my wife.

You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it.

What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them.

You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.

It never bothered me when people would say, 'You only win championships because you're playing with Shaq.' It bothered me when he said it.

I think a good director is a good listener.

It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.

I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain.

I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.

You can't change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.

People who know your work and know your personality, they know your strengths and weaknesses. A director like Guillermo del Toro, he knows more about me than I do. I trust him when he tells me what part I'm going to be playing in something, because he's envisioned that that can only be done by me. He knows it.