When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
When you taste a mango in the United States, it's just tasteless. — 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
Everything is reason. If you don't have reason, you have nothing. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. When you are by yourself, you have to develop a third eye. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I learned there are ways to approach life. You can never change the events, but you can change the way you approach… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
To shoot a conventional film means that you are always covering yourself. You are putting nets and, in a way, letting bad… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to… — 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… — 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
I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you. — 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
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
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
I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me,… — 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'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
Nowadays, a critic has to watch 700, 800 films a year, and I know through experience, being a juror in prestigious film… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
'Biutiful' is a tough film. It doesn't make concessions to the vulgarity of light entertainment. It's not the kind of film that… — 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
Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Directing non-actors in a language that you yourself… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I think when you turn 50 you get a little melancholic in a way. — 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
I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
In families you can find the source of every human drama. It is interesting because the cell of a society, the cell… — 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 learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you. The experience was… — 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
When you shoot in a room, that's a symmetrical thing that contains you. When there's no contention, the sensation is overwhelming you.… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything. — 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
I think there's nothing wrong with being fixated on superheroes when you are 7 years old, but I think there's a disease… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there's… — 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
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
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
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
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