Amenabar Y Quotes & Sayings

Alejandro Amenabar is a different kind of director than I lot of the directors I've asked for. He really asks you to enter his dream as opposed to, you know, a guy like Sidney Lumet or something is going to ask you to create a character almost like a documentary. He wants you to make the people really real and he's going to capture it like a documentarian. — Ethan Hawke

I would love to stay alone when I'm creating. — Alejandro Amenabar

And I guess, I guess it's a humanist film. It's not really a spiritual film and it's, you know, it's saying that we're all one tribe of humans and we're on this little rock, floating through the universe and (Amenabar) has these (transitional shots of) POVs where you see humans like ants. — Rachel Weisz

Richard clenched the strip in his fist. It's some kind of riddle. I hate riddles. — Terry Goodkind

Divorce is a journey that the children involved do not ask to take. They are forced along for a ride where the results are dictated by the road their parents decide to travel. — Diane Greene

In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you ... You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you're the hake. — Alejandro Amenabar

All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco. — Donald Evans

Sometimes it depends on the actor or the actress. Sometimes they demand a lot of rehearsals. Sometimes they don't. Making movies is not like making a play, so I guess you can leave some of the work for improvisation when they do the work. — Alejandro Amenabar

What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing. — Alejandro Amenabar

I often pay homeless people to come round and clean my car. — Tara Palmer-Tomkinson

I think the concept of the sea is very important. — Alejandro Amenabar

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much. — Alejandro Amenabar

My first cut is always pretty similar to the final cut. — Alejandro Amenabar

I could feel the real interaction between directing and acting, when an actor or an actress really suggests very interesting things. — Alejandro Amenabar

I really did Regression to work with Alejandro [Amenabar]. I found him very interesting. His movie, The Others, is one of the better scary movies of the last period of time. — Ethan Hawke

He'd looked at us like we were butterflies he was pinning to a board. — Emma Cline

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance. — Alejandro Amenabar

Have this Chet Baker movie coming out and in that situation, I went down the rabbit hole studying Chet Baker and being obsessed with the period and the music and the relationships and the dynamic, and everything, drug addiction. There was so much I wanted to get at to kind of get at the truth. With Regression, I was certainly in Alejandro's [Amenabar] hands. — Ethan Hawke

You can choose to have a positive attitude — Sunday Adelaja

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions. — Alejandro Amenabar

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life. — Rohinton Mistry

Forget politics, his father had always said. Just give 'em something they need, or they'll eat you alive. — Joe Schreiber

I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to. — Alejandro Amenabar

Say it new or say it straight. — Sol Stein

Downsides, yeah, and when there are more downsides when churches first start - they go through stages of transforming to becoming multiracial. So in the beginning stages there's often a lot of pain, a lot of confusion, a lot of people leave. — Michael Emerson

I was brought up Christian, then I was agnostic and then I realized I was atheist ... This movie [Agora] is about fundamentalism and hate. — Alejandro Amenabar

An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it. — Alejandro Amenabar

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books. — Alejandro Amenabar

For my first movie, I think my first cut was like three hours, because when you first direct a movie, you want to keep everything. But I'm not one of those directors who falls in love with the stuff they've done. Already when I'm doing my first cut, I'm willing to cut out everything that is necessary. — Alejandro Amenabar

My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind. — Alejandro Amenabar