Alfonso Cuaron on Deciding to Not Work with Chivo on 'Roma' | TIFF 2018 - video Dailymotion

"Chivo's DNA is in this film," Cuaron said of the cinematographer who is his longtime collaborator.

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00:00Part of my process in this film and something that was important for me was going back to

00:06my mother tongue and to try to bring emotionally what your mother tongue brings out of you.

00:13The film because of this same situation that we decided to extend it and make it longer

00:19suddenly it became impossible for Chivo to go to Mexico for all that time because he

00:24already had commitments elsewhere.

00:26And it was like two and a half weeks before we started shooting that the painful news

00:30that he was not going to be able to do it.

00:33So I thought it was not right and it's when Chivo, actually it was Chivo who said,

00:38Eddie, come on, stop that, just do it.

00:43But I needed, particularly at the beginning part of the process, a lot of reassurance from

00:47Chivo and conversations with him.

00:52So I think that Chivo, Chivo DNA is somehow in this film.