Carlos Cuaron Professions : Screenwriter Born : October 2, 1966 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Carlos Cuaron When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted to make a sibling rivalry story. So when I was writing the script, the football was getting in the way of the drama. One day, I saw Michael Haneke's Funny Games, which is probably the most violent film I've ever seen - but the violence is off camera. When I finished watching the film, I said, 'Hey, that's what I have to do.' Haneke gave me this solution. Carlos Cuaron football sports drama Sports like baseball or baseball are easy to dramatise, because all of them have a pause and that helps with the tension. Football never stops. I'm a football fan. I believe in the beauty of the game. Carlos Cuaron baseball football sports If you are a fan, you have two choices. Go to the stadium, where you see the whole beauty of it. Or stay at home, watch the beautiful moves on the slo-mo cameras. Don't go to the cinema, because you won't see it there. Carlos Cuaron home beautiful moving The only moment football really stops is with a penalty kick - and that is a moment that is really dramatic. A penalty kick becomes a Western duel. It's two guys facing each other. Destiny and potential death, whether metaphorical or literal. That's why in the penalty kick at the end of the film, I shot it like an homage to the Sergio Leone Westerns I saw when I was a kid, especially The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. Carlos Cuaron destiny football kids I have an agent in Hollywood and he's looking for material. If I get the offer and I feel I relate to that material, I will do it. I would love to do a horror film, a thriller, a tearjerker... I like diversity. I would just like to sustain my sense of humour! Carlos Cuaron agents diversity hollywood Similar Authors Irving Brecher screenwriter Bill Kelly screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin screenwriter Burt Prelutsky screenwriter Budd Schulberg screenwriter Bryan Fuller screenwriter All Authors