As a city, it is always compelling. But every day in Mexico City, I give thanks that I am alive. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I always have considered Michael Keaton to be a phenomenal actor because he navigates drama and comedy. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I'm an intense person. My own vision of life has always been heavy. — 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
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
All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Ultimately, with every film I'd done before, there was a reference. They have their own uniqueness, but there was always a precedent. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
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 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
At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that literature, there's always an exploration… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
We have always existed in different forms - carbon, oxygen, water, heat. Maybe Heaven is this brief period when the elements realize… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
As a Third World citizen, I always feel that I need to express my point of view. Sometimes the points of view… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
To become a celebrity, a name - and I've actually met some that speak of themselves in the third person - it's… — 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
