I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I know how to work with people. I've worked with the same people for 10 years. I'm not that kind of auteur.… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
'Babel' is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
We want to conquer the world and have 1,000 likes, 1 million likes, but at the same time, we are depressed. We… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their… — 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
I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at… — 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
It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only… — 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
Our real human nature is revealed better when we are confronted with limited situations, and I think that life itself is an… — 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
