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Quotes 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. My movies are not movies of answers but of questions. 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. 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. 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. 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. I think the concept of the sea is very important. 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. 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.Trivia He didn't finish his university studies due to one 4th grade subject, "Film writing". The last name of the professor who kept failing him is Castro, and that also the last name of the evil professor in his first long movie, Tesis (1996). Amenábar claims he used the last name inadvertedly at first, it was the university people who noticed the coincidence and asked him to change it. In the end he decided not to, although in the scripts he did write a different name, Gálvez. Incidentally, he has done the script writing in all of his movies so far. He's a great collector of soundtracks. Abre los ojos (1997) is his "remake" of Vertigo (1958), by Hitchcock. In fact, when the character of Sofia appears after hitting Cesar with a jar, it's the same shot of Kim Novak in Vertigo when she appears from the bathroom in the hotel - with green lights After his film Mar adentro (2004/I), he received a congratulation's letter from Steven Spielberg, one of Amenabar's favorites directors. Invited to join AMPAS in 2005. His name appears in Tesis (1996), on a computer screen. When the main character checks the names of the buyers of the cameras, Amenábar is one of them. Composes the music for all his movies. Is a self-taught composer who learned to write music using a computer software. His favorite directors are Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and Stanley Kubrick. | ||
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