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
Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another. — 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
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
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
I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films. — 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
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've listened to music all my life. I've always felt that music tells more stories sometimes than films, with more possibilities. Every… — 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
For me, the most important thing that I have to accomplish is to be a good father. That's the most difficult challenge… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Two words guided the making of 'Babel' for me: 'dignity' and 'compassion.' These things are normally forgotten in the making of a… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything. — 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
