Emmanuel Lubezki, A.S.C.

"When I started, it was just about getting images. We weren't afraid of making mistakes. The idea was to use what we could to get to the heart of a scene. We wanted to get into the conflict within the character. It was our way of best serving a movie, a story. There was more time to develop a look. We would watch the blocking, and begin to sift through an infinite number of ways to do the story."

Getting Emmanuel Lubezki A.S.C. to sit down and talk about his career is close to impossible. People around him say he is shy. "Not when I'm around Cuaron," he laughs, referring to his longtime friend and director Alfonso Cuaron. ...

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