Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes
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
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and I've always found my way through it in different ways.
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
Look, I'm no purist - there are good superhero films, and there are bad ones.
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
That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.
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
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
Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.
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
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
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
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
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
Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; it's the same air as Jesus breathed. I would like them to remember that connection.
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've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.
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 expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you. The experience was so good.
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
'Russian Ark,' I adore - I almost cried at the end of that film, it's so beautiful.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I have never met a superhero, but why are we so obsessed with superheroes?
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
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
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
We are the only alive creatures that are mortals; the animals are immortal, which is why they live stupidly. We are the only creatures that know that we will die, but that is a gift. It's important because we know we have to take advantage and squeeze life and understand why we're here in the first place.
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
I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.
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
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
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
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
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 do think that the emotional weight of 'Biutiful' has blinded some viewers to the beauty and complexity of the film.
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
Good directors don't answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu