I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Films like 'Babel' can transcend the one point-of-view formula that has reigned for so long. — 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 like the possibility of failure. I don't want to be in a comfortable zone. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.' — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; it's the same… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The way America sees Mexico, if they have any sense of it, is like Taco Bell. Our countries are neighbors, and the… — 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… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I want the camerawork to fit the narrative and tell the story from the point of view of the character, but sometimes,… — 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
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 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
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
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share
I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share
I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share
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
