Alfonso Cuaron Quotes

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

I'm excited about what technology is offering storytellers and movie- and TV-makers.

I can't frankly see much difference in the film industry at all. The only difference might be that they don't take as much time as they used to. For example, they'll do in one day what we used to take a week to do.

Although technology has been playing a key role in filmmaking, I feel there are plenty of opportunities in other branches of filmdom.

If you look over the history of cinema, changes happen when directors embrace new tools and technology and think outside the box.

I've done more than 100 films, which is a sizeable chunk of life in cinema, so if something can startle me, then I think we can say we're looking at something fairly new.

I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it... and a bit of confidence maybe.

You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different, and critics say we make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different, and you get kicked in the gut for it.

I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.

Everybody is so busy talking about 'Twittering' and talking about the new technologies and talking about this and that, but they don't talk about creativity.

I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one.

People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

I love making videos on my couch. You can put those on the Internet fast. I can express myself.

I think it's important that filmmakers look at the technology and figure out how to make the theatrical experience a little more exciting.

I've always shot on film, but the times are changing.

I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.

We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.

It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

Every filmmaker's just going to keep trying to make it the best you can make it: make it as potent and interesting and entertaining and exciting and tough and sexy as you can.

Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.