Alejandro Amenabar Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

Mary Shelley

#4. Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.

Zhuangzi

#5. 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

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

Alejandro Amenabar

#7. There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.

Juvenal

#8. 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

#9. The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

Benjamin Cardozo

#10. We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.

Gwyneth Paltrow

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

Alejandro Amenabar

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. A Peaceful and Free Tibet ... makes a better & brighter humanity. Let's not wait till tomorrow ... to start building a brighter, better world!

Timothy Pina

#15. 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

#16. It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#17. Has some married man asked you to be his mistress? If so, give me his name and I will see to it that he disappears.

Amanda Quick

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

Alejandro Amenabar

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

Alejandro Amenabar

#20. 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

#21. Inspirational quotes are dances of light that shine in dark places during your life.

Shannon L. Alder

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

Alejandro Amenabar

#25. 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

#26. Scholars and enlightened always want to define the differences between communism, socialism, fascism and other economic or political systems. It really doesn't matter to those who are subjected to those societies how someone has articulated their misery.

Jake Danishevsky