Cuaron Director Quotes & Sayings

If you want to keep on being relevant as a director, I think you have to embrace the times. And with the times come technologies and formats. — Alfonso Cuaron

The older we get, the less prone we are to putting off what we really want to do, therefore you will be able to seek out new directions later. — Wendy Lustbader

An ounce of joy is the equivalent of a ton of happiness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books. — Jimmy Reid

We campaigned across the South ... without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got north to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan, and then Mrs. Ferraro ... Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history. — Jesse Jackson

The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better. But then I write the stuff. Obviously I'm prejudiced. — Robin McKinley

I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but also to create a space in which the director calls the shots. — Alfonso Cuaron

Humiliating people in the name of religion is the practice of someone deprived of the first fruit of religion, # humility . — Nouman Ali Khan

It sounds crazy, to think that I cared so much without ever talking to you. — Tahereh Mafi

As a director, you're only as good as your collaborators. You surround with collaborators that are going to understand what you're trying to do. Not only that, they're going to push and fight for what you're trying to do. — Alfonso Cuaron

He is very concerned with his dignity, and I think that prevents him from having an interesting life. If I were a boy, and permitted to have an interesting life, I would have no dignity at all. — Robin Hobb

My earliest memories of Gwyneth first singing is in bed when we would make up songs. The most I could do was harmonize, like, a third above, and at two years old, she'd be doing sixths. I said, 'Where in the world did that come from?' She'd just make up songs. — Blythe Danner

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile. — Dorothy Day

I have my set rigged with the biggest sound system possible and have a mini jack for my iPod attached to my director's chair. I find playing music is a very direct way to communicate with actors and the crew, especially those crew members who are on the periphery of the set. I like dancing on set too, it's a good way to release tension. — Alfonso Cuaron

As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. And my own passion was that I wanted to be a film director. I realized that being an astronaut was not going to be an option, so I said, "Well, I'm going to be a director and do films in space." — Alfonso Cuaron

I have always believed that one learns more from failure than from success. — Linda Ronstadt