My duty is to make probable the improbable. If I tell you how I did it, I will ruin your experience. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they… — 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
Trump doesn't know it yet, but he will become one of the guys that he hates very soon. Soon he will be… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
My kid will come home from seeing the latest 'Transformers' movie, and I'll ask him, 'How was it?' 'Amazing!' 'What was it… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
When we are looking for validation, that will never satisfy us. When we are looking for affection, for love, a little bit… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
On a transcendental level, a film is not going to be better or worse because there's a prize behind it. The work… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party. When… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
We are the only alive creatures that are mortals; the animals are immortal, which is why they live stupidly. We are the… — 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
