Alfonso Cuaron Quotes

Singing and dancing are the greatest emotional outlets you can have.

I understand why offices need to have office parties. I understand why offices need to have betting pools. No matter what the job, you need things to foster camaraderie and let off steam.

I'm at my happiest when I'm on a movie set. It's like therapy for me.

Dancing has always been my comfort zone.

Some music will make you dance. Other music helps you release tension.

The director sets the tone, and if someone's ruling it with an iron fist, people are quiet and the days go long in my experience, when there's a very serious tone, the days just drag. When there's someone who, in between takes, is joking or laughing the days go quick.

When I'm writing something, if it gets too serious, I just can't bear it, so I take a step back and take the overall scene in and vent the air a little bit.

I always have to work hard to find a way to disconnect from the thinking until it becomes second nature to me because that's where you find the best moments. Dancing is like that for me all the time. It makes me feel free.

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes. "Mom, I'm too young to dance," I told her. She kind of forced me, but I ended up loving it, and after the first lesson I came back and said, "Come on, Mom, I'll show you the box step." That introduced me not just to dancing but also to working with someone without having a goal.

I never force myself to dance or sing.

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit

For me, coming to work and laughing is so much more preferable than coming to work and having to cry over a corpse or something. That's a drag.

I couldn't choose between all of those things! I looooove acting and dancing on Shake It Up, and I am currently in the recording studio working on my music. And one of my dreams is to walk down the runway during fashion week!

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

I don't look back or analyze my films. I just make them. It's for someone else to look at.

First, I think of myself as a brand, a businesswoman. Musician is something I just do because it's my passion - I love it and it's something I do for fun. I love music and I love to make people dance.

The way you get through having a shitty job is to laugh a lot and goof around.

When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom.

My favorite process is writing, from day one. The songs I have written throughout the years were a real great opportunity for me to communicate, because I think tha'ts my prime objective on this planet.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently

I'm most excited to see how I've grown as a performer. After Dancing With the Stars I really was able to evolve in a lot of ways and I'm excited to put that to use on stage.

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

Sometimes I feel we express more with dancing or acting or painting than with words.

The attitude of the leader affects the atmosphere of the office