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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

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I think the concept of the sea is very important.

~Alejandro Amenabar

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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

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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.

~Alejandro Amenabar

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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

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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

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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

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My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

~Alejandro Amenabar

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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

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Director

Born: March 31st, 1972

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