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've listened to music all my life. I've always felt that music tells more stories sometimes than films, with more possibilities. Every time you listen to them, songs bring different images and moods - depending on where you are in your life, you can...

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We are the only alive creatures that are mortals; the animals are immortal, which is why they live stupidly. We are the only creatures that know that we will die, but that is a gift. It's important because we know we have to take advantage and squeez...

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I was about to turn 50, I went into a kind of personal revision and observed my own priorities and what led those priorities in my life. And many things that, in a way, were profound.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When we are looking for validation, that will never satisfy us. When we are looking for affection, for love, a little bit of that will be enough to be complete.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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 wrote in different structural styles.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to express the immediacy of what they were being affected by - and I love that. That is why I do what I do. I need to express myself.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in love with everybody, but unfortunately, nobody was in love with me.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We want to conquer the world and have 1,000 likes, 1 million likes, but at the same time, we are depressed. We are lonely, but we have 10,000 followers. We are all bipolar.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time, advertising gives you a lot of vices, for example, an obsession for a superficial look, but at the same time, it gives you the capacity to synthesiz...

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

From the time we open our eyes, we live in a Steadicam form, and the only editing is when we talk about our lives or remember things.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'm neurotic. I complain all the time. I'm a workaholic. And I'm never satisfied.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

In hotels, every time I make a reservation and they never find my name, they never can pronounce it; it's so long, and sometimes they confuse.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Time is what allows stories to spread into people's consciousness.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Time starts out as a notion. But after you turn fifty, time is not a notion anymore but a fact that you start feeling clearly, and in a way, it pushes you to become present in the present.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When you have something that is bothering you, and then you articulate, take the time to really express it and see it clearly, to recognize. To acknowledge that is already a liberating energy.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.

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