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…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

'Babel' is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I'm working, I'm insufferable because I get stuck with myself, and suddenly I become obsessive, thinking about how to make something…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Mexico City is very different now than when I grew up, but I was in the streets all the time - though…

— 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…

— 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…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When you are shooting in a conventional way, you put nets around yourself. It's very hard to fall and hit the ground.…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Time starts out as a notion. But after you turn fifty, time is not a notion anymore but a fact that you…

— 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…

— 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…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Now is a time where there are so many social networks, such need for validation... you don't have to be a star…

— 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…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth,…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

One of the reasons why I agreed to do commercials is that they gave me complete freedom. I just had to have…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I love Sam Mendes, but I went to see 'Spectre' with my kid, and the opening scene of the Dia de Muertos…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I just wanted to show the migrants as complex humans with flaws and weakness, with good and bad things, and show that…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu