Alejandro Amenabar famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In horror movies today its 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

#Cutting #Opposites #Silence
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

#Mean #People #Hollywood
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

#Mother #Brother #Book
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

#Change #Want #Scripts
My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.
-- Alejandro Amenabar

#Answers
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

#Distance #Mean #Thinking
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

#Elements #Pieces #Too Much
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

#Sea #People #Hollywood
For my first movie, I think my first cut was like three hours, because when you first direct a movie, you want to keep everything. But I'm not one of those directors who falls in love with the stuff they've done. Already when I'm doing my first cut, I'm willing to cut out everything that is necessary.
-- Alejandro Amenabar

#Falling In Love #Cutting #Thinking
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

#Movies In General #Mind #Impression
I would love to stay alone when I'm creating.
-- Alejandro Amenabar

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

#Real #Interesting #Acting
My first cut is always pretty similar to the final cut.
-- Alejandro Amenabar

#Cutting #Finals #Firsts
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

#Play #Actors #Demand

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