Alfonso Cuaron Quotes

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.

It's important to me to create archetypes of human experiences and make them so that the song has a sense of purpose when you experience those emotions. You know, just making people feel like they're not alone.

There's always to me a universality - one of the things I learned early on as a journalist and a writer is that there's a universality in specifics. The more specific you get, the more universal it can be.

I think people enjoy "The Lobster" because people respond to original things, but I think they only respond to original things if they connect to some truths within us.

I wanted to do something different. Therefore, the first person I thought would have been too exclusionary. It would have said me, me, me, me, me. I, I, I, I, I. As if I were pushing away my experiences from the experiences of others. Because basically what I was trying to do was show our commonality. I mean to say, in the very ordinariness of what I recount I think perhaps the reader will find resonances with his or her own life.

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.

I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.

I think it can be fun to write about relationships just because so many people can relate to what you are feeling.

I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.

I think you become more relatable when you're vulnerable.

I think that just because the show is titled 'Awkward Black Girl' and it is a predominantly black cast doesn't mean that you shouldn't be able to relate to these people. We're all human beings. We all essentially go through the same things when it comes down to it, so I don't I think that should limit who watches it.

People want real-life stories.

As long as you tell the best story possible, you can trust that people will be able to connect to it.

I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.

Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.

'Bottled Up' is so honest. It's something we all can relate to.

Even though 'Star Wars' takes place in another galaxy, a lot of the themes and things that characters deal with in terms of lessons that they're learning are things that are completely relatable to real life.

There's moments I go through day to day because I'm human. I think the diversity in my music is going to help people relate to that.

I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to strangers as though they are friends, more often than not, if only for as long as the encounter lasts, they become friends, and if in the process they also think of you as a little peculiar, who cares?

I think unintentionally I gravitate towards concepts and topics that hit home or are something real we can all relate to.

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

There is no such things as God's word on earth. Or if there is it is not to be found in books. -Then where is it to be found?- In love. In the laughter of children. In a gift given. In a life saved. In the quiet of morning. In the dead of night. In the sound of the ocean, or the sound of a car. It can be found in anything, anywhere. It is the fabric of our lives, our feelings, the people we live with, things we know to be real.

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.