Cinema Quotes by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Look, I'm no purist - there are good superhero films, and there are bad ones.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'm telling the same story in every film.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think films are bigger than structure.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

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

When I have been exposed to so many films that are so bad, my soul gets crushed. I just feel intoxicated.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

— 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

Films like 'Babel' can transcend the one point-of-view formula that has reigned for so long.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

There's nothing better than being in a film that translates to audiences and makes people think and feel good and walk away…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

All my films I have shot in chronological order - always. And the reason is that there's a moment that the screenplay…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Mexican cinema about little…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I understand when there's no money for the arts in the government, but it should maybe pressure private companies to support more…

— 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

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

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 do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think, unfortunately, everything is becoming about comfort, you know? A comfortable way to tell a story. The comfortable way, so that…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think movies in general should have more respect for the audience than they do. Too many films are afraid to confuse…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

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

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

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn't be defeated by the…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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