--- --- # 'Gravity' Director Toasts Future Generations by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 30, 2014 9:15 AM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 30, 2014 9:15 AM UTC Deciding to refrain from toasting his mother because “my Oedipus is rampant” and he still needs his eyes in order to direct movies, Alfonso Cuarón turned his praise to generations yet to come as he raised his glass at the TIME 100 Gala in New York Tuesday evening. “Every single real inspiration I have in life has been one that has not betrayed the purity and the innocence of the 15-year-old that I once was,” he said “The one who dared to believe that the impossible can happen.” 'Gravity' Director Cites Youth as Best Inspiration ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/82295/gravity-director-toasts-future-generations/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/82295/gravity-director-toasts-future-generations/"},"headline":"'Gravity' Director Toasts Future Generations","datePublished":"2014-04-30T09:15:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:34:33.277Z","description":"Academy-award winning director Alfonso Cuarón believes he owes his success not to generations past, but to those yet to come.","url":"https://time.com/82295/gravity-director-toasts-future-generations/","keywords":["TIME 100 Gala","Youth","Influence","Gravity","director"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-100-gala/","name":"TIME 100 Gala"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/82295/gravity-director-toasts-future-generations/","name":"'Gravity' Director Toasts Future Generations"}}]}] ```