Facts about Alfonso Cuarón

1. Birthday: Nov 28, 1961
2. Birthplace: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
3. Nickname: Alfie
4. He has always wanted to be a director, and also an astronaut.
5. When directing, he flashes the title of the movie both at the beginning and at the end of all of his films.
6.  He often uses hand-held cameras
7.  He turned down the chance to direct Addicted to Love (1997) to work instead on A Little Princess (1995).
8. He was the original director of the film The Perez Family (1995), but pulled out before production started.
9.  On his 12th birthday he received a camera, and since then he started to shoot everything he saw.
10. He has directed:· 

•   Solo con tu pareja (1991)
• A Little Princess (1995)
• Great Expectations (1998)
•  Y tu mama tambien (2001)
•  Harry Potter and the Prison of Azkaban (2004)
• Children of Men (2006)
• Gravity (2013)