Alfonso Cuarón on Writing the First Line of a Movie | On Filmmaking

BAFTA-winning filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón shares insights into his storied career, discussing his favourite writing spot, how he keeps focus and the toughest part of writing a screenplay.

Produced in 2019.

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[baftaguru]

Do you think it is necessary for a director to have previously read the work before choosing to adapt and direct a story?

[ikuep]

He's so good at film making that they made the BAFTA face look like him.

[annacoribioanna]

It warms my heart seeing a man do movies about women, and in what manner! talk about empathy! from Sandra Bullock in Gravity, from Y Tu Mama Tambien and a woman dealing with Cancer, to a world with no children because well....a woman's womb is important....to Roma!...do you all see that in most of his movies he wants the world to experience what is like to be a woman, her world often mingled in wars, in loneliness... also showcasing the often unseen details of a woman's strength that also helps to keep a world in balance. In the case of "Roma", during and after, both men and women, regardless of nationality can just feel for this human being, as if it was our sister, or someone we know, we cry with her, we feel her loneliness and pain. ....EMPATHY! and any artwork that accomplishes such task means they have created a piece of art that will be remembered through time, those movies are the ones who change the world, sub-consciously or consciously Thank you Cuaron

[ahmeds]

Alfonso Charon Is The Legend of Cinema. Hope he wins this year.

[Winduct]

You learn more from this guy in 10 minutes that at a film school in 3 years.

[jasercervantes]

"There is comfort in technique but it can be dangerous" This guy is a genius. WOW!

[maffybelgira]

Always remembered him as the director of Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban

[jackieminns]

One of the earliest lines in Roma is Cleo lying her down beside the little boy when they are outside on the rooftop where they play and she does laundry. and the boy says he's dead and she says. "I like being dead." Is it her journey, (since metaphorically death is a journey of transformation). What do you think it means? Beyond the fact that she is playing with the child.

[arctic]

Children of Men was a f***ing work of art!

[gorlami]

he looks like Sean Connery. Un leyenda del historia cinema

[brandonthomson]

What is the first reference he makes before Duel and Runaway Train?

[MrMarsFargo]

It's inspiring to see a fellow Mexican succeed in this industry. Shame to see such a pushback to that now.

[thecontainerthecontents]

1 eye symbolism on the mask in the on screen overlay. occult symbolism showing allegiance to whatever that means, but we see it everywhere. just.... everywhere. it means "i sold out"