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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People talk about the pain of defeat, but I think defeat has a lot of value. I think the wound of victory can be even more damaging than defeat. Very few people really know how to win.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

To become a celebrity, a name - and I've actually met some that speak of themselves in the third person - it's scary. They become an object, not a human, complex, questioning thing where the cells are always changing.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was 16 and 18. One of them crossed through the Mississippi and Baton Rouge and Mobile, Alabama, and another went all the way to Europe.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

To direct actors is difficult. To direct actors in another language is more difficult, but directing non-actors in another language is one of the craziest things that I have done and one of the most rewarding experiences I have had.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When you are shooting in a conventional way, you put nets around yourself. It's very hard to fall and hit the ground. You can always manipulate things to make it not embarrassing. If the scene is a little bit bad, you can polish it or even take it ou...

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films had a lot of things to say that weren't getting expressed in the films I was used to seeing.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but the market has been reduced, unfortunately, and you know th...

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they focus on. So they work for corporate interest instead of artistic expression.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I know how to work with people. I've worked with the same people for 10 years. I'm not that kind of auteur. I hear ideas.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'm overwhelmed by the pain in the world; I'm affected by the news very much, and adding that to my work was becoming a little bit too much.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It's hard for me to work for somebody else. I can work with someone, but not for someone.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

On a transcendental level, a film is not going to be better or worse because there's a prize behind it. The work will be what it is, with or without a prize.

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