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'Amores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I think I want to talk about life from the point of view of death.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I can be unbearable sometimes asking for so many takes.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I'm usually very critical of myself.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
To shoot a conventional film means that you are always covering yourself. You are putting nets and, in a way, letting bad decisions take over.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I do think that the emotional weight of 'Biutiful' has blinded some viewers to the beauty and complexity of the film.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Millions of Mexicans leave their kids in order to take care of other kids. That's a very painful thing.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I have never met a superhero, but why are we so obsessed with superheroes?
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
If the audience, in minute 50, is thinking about the way a movie is shot, there's a problem. I want it to permeate emotionally.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I don't have anything against commercials, and I really like BMWs.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I think we are all connected in this world.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
'21 Grams' is only one story told by three different points of view, but they are really physically connected - literally, with the heart.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
All people know that they will die, but they don't actually believe it.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn't be defeated by the daily onslaught of problems.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
In hotels, every time I make a reservation and they never find my name, they never can pronounce it; it's so long, and sometimes they confuse.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Good directors don't answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
It's very healthy to be aware of your ego.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I'm telling the same story in every film.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
3D is the way we experience life.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I'm an intense person.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there's nothing funny about it.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
In 'A Confession,' Tolstoy found meaning that he could hold on to, and he lived for another 30 years.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I have been very lucky to have final cut in all my films; everything that is wrong in them is my fault.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Fear of the unknown is a great creative partner.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world is hate.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I think that when we wrestle with death ... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
As the camera, I try to subordinate every word to be truthful and honest to each character's context.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Make sure, for once and forever, that the color of our skin becomes as irrelevant as the lenght of our hair
— Alejandro G. Inarritu
I've never done a period piece or a comedy, and that could be something truly different for me.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I have a bad reputation, I guess.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. When you are by yourself, you have to develop a third eye.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I know how to work with people. I've worked with the same people for 10 years. I'm not that kind of auteur. I hear ideas.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I always think politicians and even my dentist have more egos than actors.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
From the time we open our eyes, we live in a Steadicam form, and the only editing is when we talk about our lives or remember things.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Innocence can be more powerful than experience.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I think when you turn 50 you get a little melancholic in a way.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Antonio Sanchez is from Mexico City. I met him at a Pat Metheny concert. He did a solo, and I thought, 'This is an octopus man!'
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Writing is not an unknown territory for me.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Films like 'Babel' can transcend the one point-of-view formula that has reigned for so long.
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I define myself from a vision, from a point of view of life.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Ultimately, with every film I'd done before, there was a reference. They have their own uniqueness, but there was always a precedent.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I really didn't want to become branded as 'that multistructural guy.'
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I'm an intense person. My own vision of life has always been heavy.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I am not a depressive person at all.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Sometimes reading scripts is terrible.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
— Emma Watson
I have fantastic ideas.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I don't have a career. I have a life.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I learned there are ways to approach life. You can never change the events, but you can change the way you approach them.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
As a city, it is always compelling. But every day in Mexico City, I give thanks that I am alive.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I always have considered Michael Keaton to be a phenomenal actor because he navigates drama and comedy.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Now that we're poisoned with the culture of superheroes, I think it's important to laugh about it.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Who cares about my opinions?
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Look, I'm no purist - there are good superhero films, and there are bad ones.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
It's harder to make real audio than special effects audio.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I'm overwhelmed by the pain in the world; I'm affected by the news very much, and adding that to my work was becoming a little bit too much.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I respect BMW for not interfering in these projects. They're just trying to support short films with their brand, which I think is great.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Time is what allows stories to spread into people's consciousness.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I have ADD. I can't pay attention to one thing too long.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu