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…

- 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 s…

- Alejandro Amenabar

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

My first cut is always pretty similar to the final cut.

- Alejandro Amenabar

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 inst…

- 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.

- 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 bo…

- 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…

- Alejandro Amenabar

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

- Alejandro Amenabar