Outlet is necessarily dead, but clearly the web is an he for spousely dynamic and important place for journalism that is winning. Right now and so that is one of these things and every one upon factor in all of these things is that it is web versed and web centric and web only, perhaps. Rose Alfonso Cuaron, Sandra Bullock, Walt Mossberg and kara swisher when we continue. Funding for charlie rose is provided by the following. I have been around long enough that the people out there owning it, the ones getting involved, staying engaged, they are not afraid to question the path they are on. Because the one question they never want to ask is, how did i end up here . I started swab for those people, people who want to take ownership of their investments like they do in every other aspect of their lives,. Rose additional funding provided by captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Do you copy . Do you copy . Houston, this is Mission Specialist stone, i am off structure and drifting, do you copy . Rose Sandra Bullock and Alfonso Cuaron are here. They collaborated on one of the most talk about movies of last year, the movie is called gravity, it is an action movie set in space, it ponders deep questions about human struggle and evolution, and here is a trailer for gravity. Beautiful, dont you think . What . The sunrise. Terrific. No houston, dr. Snow, listen to my voice. I cant breathe. Help what do i do . No, no, no anybody, please copy. Rose gravity is nominated for ten Academy Awards, ten Academy Awards including best actress, best director and best picture i am pleased to have Sandra Bullock and director Alfonso Cuaron at this table. Together. Welcome. Now he has been here before. And before but never with you. He has done everything better and before me. I am okay following him. Rose so when they showed you this part did you say this is for me . I love it or did you no. Rose did you say i dont want to work i am tired of working . I said i dont want to work i have nothing to offer, i dont know how i dont even know where to begin to Start Talking myself into rose did you really . Yes. Rose why . I wanted to stay home with rose that is a different reason. With a sweet little boy and i didnt where i was in my life at that time, yes that would be the child, that would be him. And i just wasnt in a place where i thought rose lets go make a movie and play with adults. Yes, pretty much, pretty much, that was it. So why do you want and insist actually, you know, i met her in austin, we have are a lovely conversation, a lovely chat, i called hey man, my partner and said he is bright but she doesnt want to work. Is that right. After the conversation, she wanted to do it. Rose oh, she didnt tell us that part. Yes. But she didnt let us know like for a few days. So we suffered. You, she upped the ante. The rules of dating, you know. You cant take the first offer. It is interesting in, as game playing may sound, there are other factors, you know, you need to weigh before you go off on an unknown journey, there was nothing about this journey you could sort of get a hand hold on and say i know what this is going to be and be secure in making this decision, nothing, i so i had to look at a lot of fax factors to see if i could, you know, be okay letting go of everything, to go on this journey. Rose what factors did you look at . Well the first one was can you make the world a Wonderful World for my son . I cannot go here if i cant be around him all day and if i cant have him be a part of this journey, so they guaranteed me that his world would be right there with us, and they would make it amazing, which they did, they turned the whole, you know, cement soundstage into this wonderful oasis for a child learning how to walk, bumper guarded everything. So that was a huge factor. Rose how is louie. At the time he was a year and a half. And then just and not knowing how to do this, am i going to be able to train for this . Will i be able to have the time and prepare to do what i need to do and all the answers were yes. Rose and it was an interesting enough character for you to want to inhabit . Once i knew that he would allow me a certain level of collaboration, i didnt expect collaboration to come from someone like alfonso, i thought you sign on and you let go and let the tiny dictator rule the set. Be ineffective lent. Rose benevolent dictator. Ben voluntary lent dick. Benevolent dictator. S it wasnt like that at all. I didnt know how to pull it off. If i didnt have the ability to collaborate with the storyteller because there was nothing, you had nothing, so i needed to know that he was okay letting me stop and question and search for and all he was that and more. Yes. My cowriter, we always say that we have composed a screen play was done in harmonies and the melody, and it is truly literal in the sense that there was in the screen play that sandra read, it was every single scene that you have seen in the film, but the way of taking the character, it was still up to interpretation and sandra was so adamant to work, to make sure that every single detail was going to work for the theme of the film. Rose what is the theme of the film. The theme of adversity, the theme of loan license and adversity. Rose i thought it was rebirth as well. Well, yes, adversity and the possibility of rebirth, but the journey is a journey of adversities, and the goal is rebirth, yes. Rose we will see how you made this movie in part. How long did i it take you to make it . A total, four and a half years. Rose well how much of that was just getting the money and everything and the actors together . No it was four and a half years because we have to develop the whole technology and stuff for two and a half years, then we shot, and then it was pretty much two years of putting everything together again. Rose this is nothing like you have made before. No, never had an experience like this. Rose you have never thought about gravity much, have you . I do when i look at my face in the mirror and other parts of your body you think about it a lot. Its a thought. Rose i was hoping you wouldnt say that. I think about it all the time. But i had not thought about how the body works in gravity which is very different than how the body works with rose without gravity. How the body works in zero g versus gravity. Rose yes. And you have to unravel every impulse and reaction that you normally have and in this strierm and you have to train your body to bend and movie in ways. Rose explain that to us you have to move in way that are counter intuitive. Yes the best piece of advice i got from actually astronauts at space stations imagine you are pushing and pulling against balloons so pulling in is like the act the balloon was here is what it feels like so there is always an effort made, and if you hit against something, you know, lets say i am running against this table you move forward into the table versus the minute you bump into something you go backwards and grab it and you dont stop until you meet Something Else and how your body responds and spins out of control is, as much as you fight it the worse it gets. It was just little pieces of information that they gave me that when we started rehearsing i went wow. When i had the screen play i sent it out and there is a small sample, intimate film, we can do it in one year, just like some special effects, but when primed it, the convention, it was clear that it was not going to work. Rose yes. So we needed to find a way of making that work, and one of the principals that we discovered is to try to move the actor as little as possible and try to move the universe around as much as possible. Rose he is used to that. [laughter. ] now from you. I know. Wow. Are you surprised . I was surprised that you jumped on it first. I thought it would first come out of his mouth. Well continue, continue. And then it was possible in a Peter Gabriel concert and he is so and. Rose led panels. And had this idea of experimenting with led lights, because you know of the speed at which the lights can travel in each panel and that was the point of the departure, and then we combined that with robots, the one they used to build cars. Rose so what is happening here . And then we hit very hard. There is the scene they are literally filming it upside down. This is the puppeteer. And they are up there sort of laterally moving you and another puppeteer below me to sort of keep the body rose wow. Is this the hardest move you have ever had to make. In the best way, yes. In the best way. Yes. Because everything. Challenging but most exciting. Guying and rewarding and also the most, once i figured out that i was fighting it and i should actually be using everything that was frustration and that limited me, all of those things that frustrated me were actually things that once i figured out were of benefit because ostensibly it is the same thing that is happening to the character in space, it is the loss of control, the frustration, the loneliness, the isolation and instead of fighting it you sort of embraced it and it became a friend rather than something that was a problem. Rose here is another scene. Take a look. So this is taking something off. This is taking off the space suit, and the bicycle seat, the balancing. Yes. This was p5e toughest for you. Yes. Because you had to like contort and hold the position while the camera is also turning and moving in the background is moving and turning so all elements had to be in sync or if my hand was there the wrong place and also she had only this point of the bicycle seating which it would be like an all day, all the weight and stuff, and she had to move as if she is just loading, so that was a tough one. Yes, but it was also the one you knew everything was leading up to that specific scene and that shot and you could just feel the excitement but the tension of everyones position in the scene, because so many variables had to come together but when it did and it worked it was absolutely silent, i thought i heard chivo crying, he was so emotional for everyone that when it worked, it was beautiful. It is because that was one of those moments that were impossible, we couldnt figure out how we were going to do it, and. Rose and this is collaborating too. Yes. But and the thing is, that a big chunk of the weight of that moment was going to fall on how easy sandra was going to make it look, you have to remember he is supposed to be floating in zero gravity, no resistance and he is actually just doing this grab kind of situation there. Rose i had no idea. And thank god you had that career as a dancer too. It was my love of dancing i never would have made it as a dancer i am not disciplined enough, but i did look back and i go the love of dance, my parents musical background, piano for years, just timing and rhythm and everything being musically motivated, once that clicked for me while we were shooting instead of someone barking out counts and types, and you are like stop it, i could sub consciously figure out how to carry out the scene, rhythmically like a dance routine so once we were able to rehearse it and get it in sync, you didnt think about it anymore like the lower hall of your body operated completely separate from the inner like and emotional life so you could just do your job while the mechanics of your bodied the slow motion and land idea they were supposed to land suppose you were disciplined enough would you have liked to become a dancer . Absolutely, absolutely. Really . That is the thing i think, it is like, really . Yes. Rose well, it is interesting. And my dream always has been, i mean when i sit back and allow myself today dream it is about that, to be able to express myself through the movement of body to music, not saying a word and this is as close as i will ever come, thats what i left here coming my dream of being a dancer was sort of realized once i made this movie. What is she going through . What is the transformation in ryan . You know, someone who has experienced such a loss that the only way to survive is to remove anything that the in essence of memory of what like was like before, is he is basically a machine, allowing her brain and skills and what he is good at to sort of propel her through life, everything is rhythmic and perfunctory and nothing in like that has any meaning if she can at all avoid it, it brought her to this situation, in space, i dont feel great but i will execute what i need to execute and go back to life which is pretty much nonexistent, she doesnt care if she has a life or if she perishes so what kind of person is she at that point when she has to decide to fight for her life . Is she going to be someone who just said i am going, i am going to take this opportunity and let go and die or take this opportunity and let go and let whatever comes, come, but accept that she might it might be worth fighting for something. So it is interesting to see when a person comes with that crossroads when they get what you wish, you can make that choice and let go of life, and not fight for it anymore. Rose and i mean, what is really always interesting to me, if often, if it takes you Something Else to get you to find that thing, in this case, being up there, that thing. Yes. Rose helped her find that she might not have found otherwise. Yes. Life is interesting that way, isnt it, that it just gives you, they say it doesnt give you anything you cant handle, i dont buy that but i do believe that, you know, if you are at all awake enough to feel the reasoning behind something, the human being is such an amazing creature in that it wants to fight, it cant not fight for survival, most of the time. And we talked about that a lot, you know, what is that thing that happens when you have given up, that ignites just the slightest amount of passion to at least try one more time before you truly give up . And sometimes letting go is what you need to do, and, you know, you have the ultimate gift in this movie, and for those who havent seen it i dont want to give it away but the greatest gift a human being can give another being is given, and it is so lovingly and selflessly done that if that doesnt ignite that tiny little spark in you to look at your life and see the worst of your life, then, you know, you are missing the whole point. To make that kind of sacrifice it doesnt do it for you. You are not going to be rose . Yeah. Rose and thats a spiritual rebirth we have been talking about. Yes, yes. The it is rebirth. Rose in the largest sense of not so religious but oneself. And knowledge about yourself, and the universe around you. Was this written by your son and you. Yes. The two of you wrote that . Yes. It was actually he was here, and did he . Pretended she understood him he kept nodding and what did he say . That was a departure, because when we started talking, the funny thing is, before, we talked about space, and we started writing the thing we talk about the themes and so we defined that it was going to be adversity and then we were talking about the scenarios, the possible scenarios and it was when this image of an astronaut just drifting into the void, and that image rose it is a perfect yes. Rose a visual image of that. Yes. That weight and that was the point. Rose now, without sounding like i am a psychologist or a shrink are you lipsed . No. Licensed . No, no. This could be an awkward moment right now. Only shrinks can help people. Rose . I still need more but i have been helped, not by you but the licensed, the people who actually know what they are doing. Rose but when you described this character have you been similar to Something Like that. . Knock on wood i never have to experience what she experienced. Rose exactly. We all get knocked about, if you have lived a good hive you are going to get knocked about. Rose if you live a good life you will be knocked about. Rose because you have taken risks and taken and taken risks and look getting up every day is a risk, opening your heart to people is a risk, is someone telling the truth . Is this guy hops about the journey we are going on or why did i say yes to something i didnt want to say yes to, i was led rose and how do you answer those questions . Why did i say yes . You know what . Why did i say yes to this one . Because when we had the initial conversation we spoke about adversity and what we wanted out of life and in similar very terms and we had the same language which really surprised me. Rose what was the language . How we speak the same language [laughter. ] rose see what i got her to admit . I think in the end it comes to not knowing, not knowing, and knowing we are absolutely in no control over anything and once you admit you have absolutely no control over anything, i think you sort of are more in tune and in sync with really the bigger picture. Rose absolutely. And comes back to the metaphor of just letting go and it is easier said than done. But going back in and saying i am going to say yes to an experience that scares the crap out of me, it is the unknown, am i being a bad mother and taking him to a place that wont be good . Is this going to be a bad environment . Are there going to be egos that will make me regret having you know all of the what ifs and every single day i was surprised and moved and loved and cared for and you go, hmm, so glad i said yes. So yeah, everyone gets knocked about and if you dont. Rose not just about a job but in terms of personal relationships. Absolutely. And i am, you know, i panic, every time i have to make a big decision that forces me to be around, you know, people and make a big life decision i panic, but when i fake a breath and let it sit it and go, if it scared me for the right reasons which is creatively that is good if i say i am going to be around energy that is not going to make that is going to make life seem, you know, life is too short category then you dont say yes, i didnt see this as a life too short category i saw this as hopefully a way to get over, get over a lot of fears that i had and i did, and it was, you know, the sweetest, sweetest time i have had in a very long time, both personally and in the work environment. Rose and therefore it encourages you to look for the same kind of experience. Yes. And i will never have this experience again. I will never have all those elements come together again. I know that and nor am i looking for it, but i want to fight for something that is different and challenging and asks the most of me and i thought i did that before, but i realized never to this degree, but also doing it to this degree taught me a lot about myself that i had no idea existed. Rose like what . It is just like addicted to sandra is almost as if is an addiction of testing her limitations. Yes. Rose testing her limitations . Addicte