Top 100 Alfonso Quotes
#1. I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.
Patricia Riggen
#2. I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was.
David Thewlis
#3. in our culture, women can do anything a man can. and vice versa."
don alfonso's eyebrows shot up. "i do not believe it."
"it's true," sally said defiantly.
"in America, the women hunt while the men have babies?
Douglas Preston
#4. My real name is Alfonso. My grandfather and dad are also Alfonso, so I was the third. So my mom just gave me the nickname Trey because I was the third.
Trey Burke
#5. It became the country's official language in the 13th century under the reign of Alfonso X el Sabio (the wise one) as he tried to unify a country that was housing a number of languages, including arabic, hebrew and latin.
Pilar Orti
#7. Learn from your experience shooting your film, and then move on to the next.
Alfonso Cuaron
#8. 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.
Alfonso Cuaron
#9. In short, so great is God's love for you that He seems to love no one but you. And therefore, you should love no one but Him.*
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#10. The heart of man will never find true peace, if it does not empty itself of all that is not God, so as to free itself all free for His love, that He alone may possess the whole of it. But this the soul cannot do of itself; it must obtain it of God by repeated prayers.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#12. 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
#13. '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.
Alfonso Cuaron
#14. If you actually relax your vocal cords they actually work better.
Alfonso Ribeiro
#15. I don't want to change. I haven't done it before, I won't do it now.
Alfonso Soriano
#16. I don't set out to do something weird, but if you see something a certain way and it's a little left of center, and you can realize it, that's a real thrill.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#17. 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
#18. Finally learning his baseball history, on the topic of Hank Aaron and his home run record
Alfonso Soriano
#21. 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
#22. I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.
Alfonso Ribeiro
#23. I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.
Alfonso Cuaron
#25. I started in the P.A. world and craft service and storyboard artist, with the eye on the prize of directing. When I was directing second unit on Babel, I ended up casting most of the unknown parts. In these weird circles, I was this guy who found these kids on the streets.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#26. Behold how the stream flows to the sea, and the flowing waters will return no more; thus, my brother, do your days pass away, and you approach to death; pleasures pass, amusements pass, pomp, praises, acclamations pass; and what remains?
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#27. The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.
Alfonso A. Ossorio
#28. You and I have been created with a DNA that drives us to want to live a life with good experiences, forces us to human growth and leads us to the contribution of something beyond our understanding.
Yovanny Alfonso
#29. This is the thing I have with awards: If awards would make your movie more pretty, I would really get super excited about it. But your movie's done. You get awards, you don't get awards ... They don't make your movie more ugly or pretty.
Alfonso Cuaron
#30. The most important thematics in humanity I think that are completely universal and completely relatable from one person to the other. As long as, one more time going to back to the thematic, as long as you're truthful to that thematic, you can trust that that is going to transcend.
Alfonso Cuaron
#31. When you start hanging out with Jennifer Lopez and Bill Clinton, you can't expect to remain an everyday person.
Alfonso Soriano
#32. The fun of directing for me, other than working with the actors, is trying to extract those ideas that you have in your head and make them real.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#33. I commit sin everytime I am with you, but it is a happy sin and I am willing to pay for it.
Alfonso P. Santos
#34. If God had consulted me before embarking on the Creation, I would have suggested something simpler.
Alfonso X Of Castile
#35. Bear well in mind that you have neither friend, nor brother, nor father, nor mother, nor spouse, nor lover, who loves you more than God.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#36. My first year in Japan was very tough, just like my first year in the minors. But at least there I had a lot of Dominican people and Latin people I can talk to. If you don't have anybody to talk to, you can get depressed. But if you find someone who talks your language, it's easier.
Alfonso Soriano
#38. On some kind of unspoken, deep, deep level, I think we [with Ryan Murphy] have an aesthetic that we both understand or connect to. It's not that we see the world in the same way because we have very different points of view, but we're both visual stylists.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#39. I love L.A. I always have such a great time in L.A. The way I kind of define me and L.A. is the noise of the factory doesn't let me sleep well.
Alfonso Cuaron
#40. Believe nothing others tell you. That is Rule No 1 of life in Astro City.
But what if the ones who set the rules are the ones lying to you?
What if the ones who reprimand the rule-breakers are lying to you?
Who do you believe when there is nobody left to believe?
Lisa Alfonso
#41. If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.
Alfonso Ribeiro
#42. I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned to trust the material and the actors.
Alfonso Cuaron
#43. I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.
Alfonso Cuaron
#44. I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them come to life.
Alfonso Ribeiro
#45. I have my misgivings about 3-D. I don't like the lack of blacks and whites, how it dulls the image, how the color gets corrupted. I don't necessarily like the experience of having heavy glasses in front of me.
Alfonso Cuaron
#46. No 'rules.' What are you, British or something? I guess I'm too nice ... No wonder people take advantage of me.
Alfonso Cuaron
#47. Often to make acts of love towards Jesus Christ. Immediately on waking, and before going to sleep, to make an act of love, seeking always to unite your own will to the will of Jesus Christ.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#48. We're born first humans then after they stamp our passport.
Alfonso Cuaron
#49. 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.
Alfonso Cuaron
#50. Being exposed to the Ryan Murphy machine, it is very much a personal extension of him. So, if I can learn from that and tell longer stories that are quite personal, and balance that out with features, then that would be the ultimate dream.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#51. If someone already knows you from being in the trenches with you on this TV schedules, and then you have a little bit more time, it's a treat for them, as well, because they can give you more.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#52. I did not imagine myself working with Luis Estrada or with the Wachowski Brothers and these are things that have happened to me and I am very satisfied. I hope to keep on finding interesting projects and interesting stories.
Alfonso Herrera
#53. You have to be very focused about the music that you have inside.
Alfonso Cuaron
#54. I was 8 when we landed on the moon. I was so into the space program as a kid. Eventually, I realized it was very unlikely that a Mexican kid in the early '70s was going to be an astronaut.
Alfonso Cuaron
#55. The Ryan Murphy television world has assistants who have become producers and writers and. If he trusts you and you have a unique way of seeing his world, he nurtures you.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#56. Experiencing this film in 2-D is only getting about 20 percent of the experience of 'Gravity.'
Alfonso Cuaron
#57. You can't just look at me like that and expect me to get over it.
Lisa Alfonso
#59. What is your life? It is like a vapor, which is dispersed by a breath of wind, and is no more.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#60. The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten.
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
#61. 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.
Alfonso Cuaron
#62. It is not a rare occurrence among intimate friends that their friendship is strengthened when one has displeased the other but has afterwards humbled himself and asked pardon.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#63. I was only driven to be the best and it was very disheartening sometimes that it took me so long to start getting my voice heard. That certainly started with television, but it was never because of where I came from, it was because people saw something in me.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#65. At some point, you have an opportunity to not be a first-time filmmaker anymore. You can embrace the genre and show the world how you can tell stories on a bigger scale.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#66. (...)books, pocket-size jewels, open up like doors to worlds you never knew existed.
Antonio D'Alfonso
#67. Ryan Murphy just gives new people a shot, and it takes a lot of confidence and generosity to do that.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#68. I still think that being thrown in a very competitive environment where you really have to see what you are made of - certainly when you come out of nowhere - was good for me.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#69. It was love, careless of its dignity." Ah, love indeed, when it tries to make itself known, does not seek what is becoming to the dignity of the lover, but what will serve best to declare itself to the object loved.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#70. 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
#71. NYU Film School was the way to learn about film, to be exposed to film, to go to repertory houses, to be exposed to New York and see films. I would go to the library and see one, two or three movies a day.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#72. As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#73. 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.
Alfonso Cuaron
#74. Withdraw yourself from people and spend at least an quarter of an hour, or a half-hour, in some church in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. Taste and see how sweet is the Lord, and you will learn from your own experience how many graces this will bring you.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#76. I want to show the richness of even the most disagreeable bits of life.
Alfonso A. Ossorio
#77. Style is just an impression. Style itself is hollow. Style, its ok style as long as it is part of a language. Style for style itself is just something very hollow.
Alfonso Cuaron
#78. I am open to keep on discovering new interesting projects, and little by little I have been coming across very beautiful projects with very affectionate directors.
Alfonso Herrera
#79. 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.
Alfonso Cuaron
#80. 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.
Alfonso Cuaron
#81. Musicals and horror films can be very non-verbal and very pure cinema with movement. The camera is justified in being a character. It can really move and tell a story, and literally direct you to look here or there.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#82. My mom, she was, she studied chemistry. And later on she changed and majored, she changed later in her career, in her life and studied philosophy and then she did a perfect clash, connection between chemistry and philosophy and she became a witch.
Alfonso Cuaron
#83. 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.
Alfonso Cuaron
#84. There are many movies that I like, but I'm not sure if they have inspired me.
Alfonso Herrera
#85. I really believe there is the possibility of something great that can happen in the right hands.
Alfonso Cuaron
#86. 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.
Alfonso Cuaron
#87. The only problem is getting comfortable with myself. It's different for me, a different team. I have to try to do the best I can, working, trying to get comfortable in the left field and with my teammates, too.
Alfonso Soriano
#88. There are fewer established rules in the way you tell a story for commercials than in features. It's a great little short story you get to play with.
Alfonso Cuaron
#89. The love of Christ presses us. The source of the love of Jesus Christ for men is his love for God. Hence he said on Holy Thursday, That the world may know that I love the Father, arise, let us from here. But to where? To die for men upon the cross.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#90. I'm a fan of musicals from great masters, and I was able to have an opportunity to express myself in musical numbers with Glee.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#91. Story is important but the most important is the theme and how you're going to convey theme cinematically. I'm a believer also
Alfonso Cuaron
#92. I'm really grateful to Ryan Murphy for so much because he's fearless. He's so confident. He has a very unusual and unique way of seeing the world sometimes, and he's somehow able to translate that into entertainment for the masses, at the right time in pop culture.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#93. When I was a kid, I believed in Santa Claus. But it was very tough because in the Dominican ... there are not a lot of rich people there.
Alfonso Soriano
#94. Historically, there is a fight between the sound designer and the composer. You see them in the mixing room and they're always fighting because the composer wants the music to be heard and the sound designer wants the sound to be heard.
Alfonso Cuaron
#95. I find it very stupid that teenagers could only see caricatures of teenagers but they couldn't see films that you try to be a truthful context, a truthful portrayal of teenagers.
Alfonso Cuaron
#96. It becomes an extension of your imagination to make something tangible and concrete.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#97. I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.
Alfonso Ribeiro
#98. Space fascinated me because I'm from the generation that saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon live on TV. I was 7 at the time. Also, 'Lost in Space' was one of my favorite shows on TV back then.
Alfonso Cuaron
#99. To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#100. What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?
Alfonso Cuaron
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