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Alejandro Amenabar

"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."

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"I make movies I want to see."

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"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations."

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"I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions."

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"There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific."

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"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."

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"All I do is go to the movies."

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"What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation."

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"Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre."

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"One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that."

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"I'm so picky. People hate going to the movies with me."

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Alejandro Amenabar
"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."

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Alejandro Amenabar
"I think the concept of the sea is very important."

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Alejandro Amenabar
"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."

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Alejandro Amenabar
"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."

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Alejandro Amenabar
"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."

Family

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Alejandro Amenabar
"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."

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Alejandro Amenabar
"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."

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