Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“if you want to be understood ...Listen.”

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

All people know that they will die, but they don't actually believe it.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I don't have a career. I have a life.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It's very healthy to be aware of your ego.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people.

— 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…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The emotions of the actors are better when they understand the chronological factors that are adding to the story.

— 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

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 creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.

— 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

I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.

— 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…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When you get to the holidays, if you think that the holidays will be forever, you just take it for granted. But,…

— 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,…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I have always considered myself to be spiritual in a way that has less to do with religion and more with an…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I have a notebook, and I know what decisions will be made in pre-production. Everything is pre-determined in the pre-production period. I…

— 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…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I have always been very wary of what would happen when I die. I feel I would die every day, and that…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When you have a fresh point of view that comes from the right side of the heart, it's just so valuable. You…

— 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.…

— 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…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

My country has been wracked with violence for a long time. Just to see all the violence on the news makes you…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

For me, it is especially important to maintain my interior life. My spirituality, my connectedness. That is the way I think. That…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

As a sensitive filmmaker, I think you have to really be careful in how you explore it. Not that you can't tell…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I have dark skin. My nickname is El Negro. They call me El Negro in Mexico because even in my country, the…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When people laugh and applaud as characters are killing each other, and you never see the body that's lying there, or you…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The most beautiful thing that I learned, I learned from my kids. They were eight and ten - and they were playing…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I leave the story room to grow into what the movie is driving me to do.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I have ADD. I can't pay attention to one thing too long.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I have learned that I am a one-woman man.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I don't have anything against commercials, and I really like BMWs.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Everything is reason. If you don't have reason, you have nothing.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I am not a depressive person at all.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu