Alfonso Cuaron

I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new ...
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A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by ...
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The two real leads in 'Children of Men' are Clive Owen and the social environment. You ...
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I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best ...
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I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction ...
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Experiencing this film in 2-D is only getting about 20 percent of the experience of 'Gravity.'

A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid.

I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.

For me, my films are not like my children. They are like my ex-wife. They gave me so much, I gave them so much, I loved them so much, we part ways, and it's OK, we part ways.

I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.

I knew early on that I was a nerd and that films were my refuge. Those first few minutes before the lights went off, and you're alone in the theater waiting, were really pleasurable.

I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.

I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy.

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.

I learned there's an amazing unexplored territory in terms of narrative. Before, I thought the unexplored territory was the form, the way you shoot a movie. Now, I'm learning about the beautiful marriage between form and narrative.

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.

If I would rescue one of my movies, it would be 'A Little Princess.'

I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

In 'Gravity,' nearly everything is a metaphor for the main character. The way I tend to approach a film is that character and background are equally important, one informs the other. Here, Sandra Bullock is caught between Earth and the void of the universe, just floating there in between. We use the debris as a metaphor for adversity.

It's a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could have cut a G-rated version of 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' that would have pleased the American ratings board, but it would have been five minutes long.

Most people just half-watch TV. They watch TV while they are doing many other things in the environment of their home. So, what they are doing goes through their ears as much as through their eyes. In television, the narrative and characters are in the foreground of everything, because you are watching TV as you do other stuff.

It's seldom that you find great moments in television. Usually you remember - in 'Breaking Bad' or any of these other great shows - you remember situations or characters. Not moments. But I have to say, I can make the same argument for mainstream movies, which have bad narratives and also no memorable moments.

Once I finish a film, I don't ever see it again. Never ever. I have never seen any of my films since I finished them.

The two real leads in 'Children of Men' are Clive Owen and the social environment. You know, this same movie without the social environment maybe is just like a generic chase movie.

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.

What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?

When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create those moments that are beyond narrative, that are almost an abstraction of that moment that hits your psyche.

When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.

When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.

'Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.