Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes & Sayings
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Two words guided the making of 'Babel' for me: 'dignity' and 'compassion.' These things are normally forgotten in the making of a lot of films. Normally there is not dignity because the poor and dispossessed in a place like Morocco are portrayed as mere victims, or the Japanese are portrayed as cartoon figures with no humanity. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I've never done a period piece or a comedy, and that could be something truly different for me. — 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
'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party. When you get to the holidays, if you think that the holidays will be forever, you just take it for granted. But, if you know that you have just three days at the beach, you will be so happy to be there every day. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Directing non-actors in a language that you yourself don't understand is the craziest thing you can possibly think of. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I'm scared of horses, and I don't know how to shoot them, but that's what excites me. After 40 years old, if you don't do some things that really terrify you, I don't think they're worth doing. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The way America sees Mexico, if they have any sense of it, is like Taco Bell. Our countries are neighbors, and the only hard food to get in America is true Mexican. It's impossible to find, even in L.A. Why is that? — 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
I have never met a superhero, but why are we so obsessed with superheroes? — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
For me, the most important thing that I have to accomplish is to be a good father. That's the most difficult challenge of my life. That's the most important thing for me, more than films. — 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
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
That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I love the three-act theory. It works and works beautifully. But you don't necessarily have to structure a story that way: Cortazar and Borges wrote in different structural styles. — 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
Sometimes reading scripts is terrible. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The actors make the film. They're the ones that take this theoretical movie that's in your head and make it real. The success of a film is entirely on their shoulders. I admire them, because acting is such a difficult thing to do, and I personally can't understand it. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Mexican cinema about little rural towns, or set a hundred years ago. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
3D is the way we experience life. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
We want to conquer the world and have 1,000 likes, 1 million likes, but at the same time, we are depressed. We are lonely, but we have 10,000 followers. We are all bipolar. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films had a lot of things to say that weren't getting expressed in the films I was used to seeing. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at the same time functioning. That's why I think a smart script has two things living in the same place, and they're absolutely contradictory. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The way I put together images is a reactive art. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work. — 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
To become a celebrity, a name - and I've actually met some that speak of themselves in the third person - it's scary. They become an object, not a human, complex, questioning thing where the cells are always changing. — 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'm usually very critical of myself. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
On a transcendental level, a film is not going to be better or worse because there's a prize behind it. The work will be what it is, with or without a prize. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Fear of the unknown is a great creative partner. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I have learned that I am a one-woman man. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they focus on. So they work for corporate interest instead of artistic expression. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
You hear about bombings in other countries, or numbers like "10,000 people died" - you hear that number and you think, "Well, I saw that yesterday in a film, and that didn't look so bad." Younger viewers, in particular, lose perspective on reality. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
When I have been exposed to so many films that are so bad, my soul gets crushed. I just feel intoxicated. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
If art doesn't move people, then art has failed. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations. — 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
I don't have a career. I have a life. — 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
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
I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that. I have to have the wheel. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
'Amores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
It's very healthy to be aware of your ego. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an emotional charge, I bet for catharsis. I like to invest emotionally in things. And catharsis, when it touches the emotional vein, can open the doors of even those who protect themselves. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to express the immediacy of what they were being affected by - and I love that. That is why I do what I do. I need to express myself. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there's no music. Without rhythm, there's no cinema. Without rhythm, there's no architecture. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I think there's nothing wrong with being fixated on superheroes when you are 7 years old, but I think there's a disease in not growing up. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
In the creative process, my ego has always been a huge tyrant ... a dictator and kind of rude and very misleading, because sometimes when I'm doing something, I say, "This is great! This is fantastic! Very genius!" And 20 minutes later, I feel like a dead jellyfish. "You are a stupid a**hole. This is a piece of sh*t. Nobody will care about it." — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
How can [actors] learn their lines and be honest in front of 30 people and all the lights? It makes me cry sometimes. I can't understand how they can be joking with me 30 seconds before, and 40 seconds later they're giving me all this incredible feeling. — 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
We have always existed in different forms - carbon, oxygen, water, heat. Maybe Heaven is this brief period when the elements realize they're alive. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
In families you can find the source of every human drama. It is interesting because the cell of a society, the cell of a country, the cell of humanity - everything lies in the family. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films. — 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
People talk about the pain of defeat, but I think defeat has a lot of value. I think the wound of victory can be even more damaging than defeat. Very few people really know how to win. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I think movies in general should have more respect for the audience than they do. Too many films are afraid to confuse people, so all the information is given to them right away, and there's nothing left for the film to do. It ruins many stories, because everything becomes obvious and predictable. I want my films to engage people more and make them more actively involved in the story. — 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
I always have considered Michael Keaton to be a phenomenal actor because he navigates drama and comedy. — 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 I was about to turn 50, I went into a kind of personal revision and observed my own priorities and what led those priorities in my life. And many things that, in a way, were profound. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Writing is not an unknown territory for me. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I'm telling the same story in every film. — 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
I have ADD. I can't pay attention to one thing too long. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I remember, the first time I saw a [Andrei] Tarkovsky film, I was shocked by it. I didn't know what to do. I was fascinated, because suddenly I realized that film could have so many more layers to it than what I had imagined before. Then others, like Kurosawa and Fellini, were like a new discovery for me, another country. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I think the arts should get big support, but my country has a lot of needs more important than film. Medication, education, food ... The poverty is overwhelming. There are simply more important things to be attended to. — 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
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
I don't have anything against commercials, and I really like BMWs. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in love with everybody, but unfortunately, nobody was in love with me. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I'm able to accomplish. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another. — 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 define myself from a vision, from a point of view of life. — 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
Maybe next year the government might impose some immigration rules on the academy. Two Mexicans in a row is suspicious. [On Mexican immigrants in the US] I hope they can be treated with respect of the ones who came before and built this incredible immigrant nation. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky and among current filmmakers von Trier, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
When you have something that is bothering you, and then you articulate, take the time to really express it and see it clearly, to recognize. To acknowledge that is already a liberating energy. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
All people know that they will die, but they don't actually believe it. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Mexico City is very different now than when I grew up, but I was in the streets all the time - though I was born to a middle-class neighborhood where there weren't a lot of gangs and things. I was always comfortable. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
'Ikiru' is existential but with a lot of tenderness. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu