I've listened to music all my life. I've always felt that music tells more stories sometimes than films, with more possibilities. Every time you listen to them, songs bring different images and moods - depending on where you are in… — 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
