When things cost so much, you appreciate it much more. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I have to have the wheel. It's given me an opportunity to experience and explore things. — 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 have a notebook, and I know what decisions will be made in pre-production. Everything is pre-determined in the pre-production period. I… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
From the time we open our eyes, we live in a Steadicam form, and the only editing is when we talk about… — 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
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
To direct actors is difficult. To direct actors in another language is more difficult, but directing non-actors in another language is one… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
As a Third World citizen, I always feel that I need to express my point of view. Sometimes the points of view… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try… — 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
When I talk about sad things, I talk about sad things. — 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 I was about to turn 50, I went into a kind of personal revision and observed my own priorities and what… — 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
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
I have never directed anything for the stage. I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very… — 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 studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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