Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I'm neurotic. I complain all the time. I'm a workaholic. And I'm never satisfied. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology. — 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
Time is what allows stories to spread into people's consciousness. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Sad music, I always thought, is more beautiful than other music. But at the same time, I am in my personal life… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
What good is making a jewel if nobody see it? But cost depends on the story. To get those performances in 'Biutiful,'… — 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
Every time that I'm challenged with a film I think that I haven't learned anything, that every film is different and that… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
When you have something that is bothering you, and then you articulate, take the time to really express it and see it… — 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… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Now is a time where there are so many social networks, such need for validation... you don't have to be a star… — 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 remember, the first time I saw a [Andrei] Tarkovsky film, I was shocked by it. I didn't know what to do.… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
My country has been wracked with violence for a long time. Just to see all the violence on the news makes you… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
For me, it is especially important to maintain my interior life. My spirituality, my connectedness. That is the way I think. That… — 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
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
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
In hotels, every time I make a reservation and they never find my name, they never can pronounce it; it's so long,… — 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
Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I've listened to music all my life. I've always felt that music tells more stories sometimes than films, with more possibilities. Every… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
All my films I have shot in chronological order - always. And the reason is that there's a moment that the screenplay… — 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 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
![“I remember, the first time I saw a [Andrei] Tarkovsky film, I was shocked by it. I didn't know what to do. I was fascinated, because suddenly I realized that film could have so many more layers to it than what I had imagined before. Then others, like Kurosawa and Fellini, were like a new discovery…” quote by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/942/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-12_country_i-remember-the-first-time-i-saw-a-andrei_1790638.jpg)
![“How can [actors] learn their lines and be honest in front of 30 people and all the lights? It makes me cry sometimes. I can't understand how they can be joking with me 30 seconds before, and 40 seconds later they're giving me all this incredible feeling.” quote by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0b2/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-12_actors_how-can-actors-learn-their-lines-and-be_48733.jpg)
