Mexico Quotes by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

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

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

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

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

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

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

3D is the way we experience life.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It's very healthy to be aware of your ego.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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