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
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 like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films. — 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
Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports. — 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
That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think. — 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
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
The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial. — 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
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
Of course, there's always one theater that shows some kind of European film. Now, fortunately, you have DVDs, so it's possible to… — 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
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 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
I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life. — 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 Image
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 Image
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. — 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 other thing. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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