Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Look, I'm no purist - there are good superhero films, and there are bad ones. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
If I had been at an assembly line for films, I don't know if I would be the best driver. I think… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Films like 'Babel' can transcend the one point-of-view formula that has reigned for so long. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I understand when there's no money for the arts in the government, but it should maybe pressure private companies to support more… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me,… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Mexican cinema about little… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
There's nothing better than being in a film that translates to audiences and makes people think and feel good and walk away… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
All my films I have shot in chronological order - always. And the reason is that there's a moment that the screenplay… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Nowadays, a critic has to watch 700, 800 films a year, and I know through experience, being a juror in prestigious film… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
'Biutiful' is a tough film. It doesn't make concessions to the vulgarity of light entertainment. It's not the kind of film that… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I think movies in general should have more respect for the audience than they do. Too many films are afraid to confuse… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I think, unfortunately, everything is becoming about comfort, you know? A comfortable way to tell a story. The comfortable way, so that… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
On a transcendental level, a film is not going to be better or worse because there's a prize behind it. The work… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
When I have been exposed to so many films that are so bad, my soul gets crushed. I just feel intoxicated. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
To shoot a conventional film means that you are always covering yourself. You are putting nets and, in a way, letting bad… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn't be defeated by the… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share
My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Time starts out as a notion. But after you turn fifty, time is not a notion anymore but a fact that you start feeling… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share
I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share
How can [actors] learn their lines and be honest in front of 30 people and all the lights? It makes me cry sometimes. I… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share
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… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share
I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share
I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share
I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share
I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share
For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share
