Film Quotes by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

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

— 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

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

— 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

You hear about bombings in other countries, or numbers like "10,000 people died" - you hear that number and you think, "Well,…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

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

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

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

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

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

— 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

Every time that I'm challenged with a film I think that I haven't learned anything, that every film is different and that…

— 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

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

In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

'Biutiful' is a tough film. It doesn't make concessions to the vulgarity of light entertainment. It's not the kind of film that…

— 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

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