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Random Thoughts on Other Projects: Asked if he’d ever want to return to the Harry Potter film franchise Alfonso Cuaron responded, “I would love to have the opportunity of revisiting the Harry Potter universe. It’s an amazing experience to do those films because while you’re doing those films, you’re surrounded by this amazing beneficial energy. Everything that surrounds the J.K. Rowling’s creation – I’m not talking about the film franchise, but the creation of J.K. Rowling - is impregnated with this amazing beneficial energy. So, for me, it was two amazing years of my life. I wouldn’t mind at all revisiting that.”
Commenting on the critical success of his friend Guillermo del Toro’s film, Pan’s Labyrinth, Cuaron said, “With Pan’s Labyrinth, I find that there are three films that are sister films, that I consider sister films this year. It’s Pan’s Labyrinth, Children of Men, and Babel. I think that has to do with [the fact] that we collaborate all the time. We love to stick our forks in each other’s salads. I consult Alejandro (Inarritu) and Guillermo (del Toro) all the time.
I love Pan’s Labyrinth. Probably one of the most gratifying moments in my life making films is to be in the premiere of Pan’s Labyrinth in Cannes in which they had the longest standing ovation since 1968. It was so beautiful to see Guillermo during the first two minutes really touched by the applause. By minute 5 he was crying, minute 7 he was dancing, and by minute 12 he was stripping. (Laughing) He was taking his clothes off because suddenly he didn’t know what else to do. It was so beautiful to witness that. But the power of that applause… It was not only about the hypnotic thing of the applause, it was that I find that the ending of Pan’s Labyrinth has an amazing profundity. It is this ending which the liberation by death of one of the characters is the grief of the character that stays behind. I think it’s an amazing [idea]. It has a lot of different connotations. I find that it is a very brave and a very beautiful film. I love it. I love it.”
