Quotes by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

About Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu:

Alejandro González Iñárritu is a Mexican film director, producer, screenwriter, and former composer. He is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, for Babel in 2007. He is also the first Mexican-born director to have won the Prix de la mise en scene, the best director award at Cannes.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that literature, there's always an exploration of different perspectives, points of view.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

My kid will come home from seeing the latest 'Transformers' movie, and I'll ask him, 'How was it?' 'Amazing!' 'What was it about?' 'I don't know, but it was amazing!'

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there's no music. Without rhythm, there's no cinema. Without rhythm, there's no architecture.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The way I put together images is a reactive art.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Nowadays, a critic has to watch 700, 800 films a year, and I know through experience, being a juror in prestigious film festivals where supposedly the best films are arriving, from twenty films maybe you see two that are good, one that is so-so, and ...

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I do think that the emotional weight of 'Biutiful' has blinded some viewers to the beauty and complexity of the film.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Innocence can be more powerful than experience.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

3D is the way we experience life.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you. The experience was so good.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I never deny a true experience in one shot.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I have never directed anything for the stage. I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable without the possibility to control things, to be so exposed.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable without the possibility to control things, to be so exposed.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The way America sees Mexico, if they have any sense of it, is like Taco Bell. Our countries are neighbors, and the only hard food to get in America is true Mexican. It's impossible to find, even in L.A. Why is that?

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Author Bio

  • NameAlejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
  • DescriptionMexican film director
  • BornAugust 15, 1963
  • CountryMexico
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Screenwriter; Film Producer; Composer
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Director; AACTA International Award For Best Direction; Best Director Award; Directors Guild Of America Award For Outstanding Directing – Feature Film