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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I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Look, I'm no purist - there are good superhero films, and there are bad ones.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

What good is making a jewel if nobody see it? But cost depends on the story. To get those performances in 'Biutiful,' you need that time. You need 60 takes in a scene and a year to edit. It's not realistic to do it any other way.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Fear of the unknown is a great creative partner.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

There was so much fear after 9/11, and that fear caused people to make the wrong decisions.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there's nothing funny about it.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at the same time functioning. That's why I think a smart script has two things living in the same place, and they're absolutely...

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Too much knowledge and analysis can be paralysis.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Our real human nature is revealed better when we are confronted with limited situations, and I think that life itself is an immense accumulation of losses: we lose our childhood, we lose our virginity, we lose our parents, we lose our hair, we lose o...

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I don't have a career. I have a life.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I define myself from a vision, from a point of view of life.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'm an intense person. My own vision of life has always been heavy.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a ver...

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party. When you get to the holidays, if you think that the holidays will be forever, you just take it for granted. But, if you know that you have just three...

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