Alejandro Amenabar

An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. read more

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.

[About The Sea Inside]This film is based on a man who despite his desire for death spread so much life read more

[About The Sea Inside]This film is based on a man who despite his desire for death spread so much life around him

What we wanted to show was that this man, after 30 years, decides he wants to die and he doesn't read more

What we wanted to show was that this man, after 30 years, decides he wants to die and he doesn't seem to us like someone who was unstable, as some people have suggested.

Trying to get the attention of the audience in the opposite way it's done in Hollywood today, which is to read more

Trying to get the attention of the audience in the opposite way it's done in Hollywood today, which is to bombard the audience.

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried read more

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.