The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
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 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
I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it. — 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
For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
![“I remember, the first time I saw a [Andrei] Tarkovsky film, I was shocked by it. I didn't know what to do. I was fascinated, because suddenly I realized that film could have so many more layers to it than what I had imagined before. Then others, like Kurosawa and Fellini, were like a new discovery…” quote by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/942/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-12_country_i-remember-the-first-time-i-saw-a-andrei_1790638.jpg)
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