In my work I think what drives me is perfection. I'm a chronically unsatisfied guy. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I've never done a period piece or a comedy, and that could be something truly different for me. — 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
It's hard for me to work for somebody else. I can work with someone, but not for someone. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in love… — 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
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
For me, the most important thing that I have to accomplish is to be a good father. That's the most difficult challenge… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt… — 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 see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me,… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time,… — 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
