Film Quotes by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I leave the story room to grow into what the movie is driving me to do.

— 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

'Russian Ark,' I adore - I almost cried at the end of that film, it's so beautiful.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Good directors don't answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion.

— 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

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

— 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

To direct actors is difficult. To direct actors in another language is more difficult, but directing non-actors in another language is one…

— 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

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

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

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'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

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

Two words guided the making of 'Babel' for me: 'dignity' and 'compassion.' These things are normally forgotten in the making of a…

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

— 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

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

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

— 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

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

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

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

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

— 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 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