“If you want to keep on being relevant as a director, I think you have ...” — Alfonso Cuaron Quote

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.”

“The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.”

“Love does not exclude; it embraces. If we don't love someone outside ourselves, then very simply, we do not love ourselves.”