Alejandro Amenabar Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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

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#6. I would love to stay alone when I'm creating.

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#7. My first cut is always pretty similar to the final cut.

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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

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#13. 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.

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#14. I think the concept of the sea is very important.

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

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