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 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
There was so much fear after 9/11, and that fear caused people to make the wrong decisions. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
It's harder to make real audio than special effects audio. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
In hotels, every time I make a reservation and they never find my name, they never can pronounce it; it's so long,… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
'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 Copy Share Image
When you have a fresh point of view that comes from the right side of the heart, it's just so valuable. You… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
When you are shooting in a conventional way, you put nets around yourself. It's very hard to fall and hit the ground.… — 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
