We are the only alive creatures that are mortals; the animals are immortal, which is why they live stupidly. We are the… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I know how to work with people. I've worked with the same people for 10 years. I'm not that kind of auteur.… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I have a notebook, and I know what decisions will be made in pre-production. Everything is pre-determined in the pre-production period. I… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party. When… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
People talk about the pain of defeat, but I think defeat has a lot of value. I think the wound of victory… — 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 can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I'm scared of horses, and I don't know how to shoot them, but that's what excites me. After 40 years old, if… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
My kid will come home from seeing the latest 'Transformers' movie, and I'll ask him, 'How was it?' 'Amazing!' 'What was it… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
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 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