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
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 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 think when you turn 50 you get a little melancholic in a way. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences… — 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
Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you. — 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've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like. — 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
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
Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another. — 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