That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film. — 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
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
Good directors don't answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I'm overwhelmed by the pain in the world; I'm affected by the news very much, and adding that to my work was… — 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
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
It's hard for me to work for somebody else. I can work with someone, but not for someone. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
In my work I think what drives me is perfection. I'm a chronically unsatisfied guy. — 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
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