Alejandro Amenabar

I think the concept of the sea is very important. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#i #i think #important #sea #think

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

#bit #down #feel #front #go

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

#fast #horror #horror movies #i #i tried

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

#books #brother #get #hand #i

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#movies #questions

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 #finished #many #much #music

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

#exciting #going #hollywood #just #make