I didn’t have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life. – 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 have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing – I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I’m able to accomplish. – 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
To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Look, I’m no purist – there are good superhero films, and there are bad ones. – 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
My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don’t have any political or social responsibility. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
‘Amores Perros’ is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I don’t like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is ‘ironic.’ Everything is ‘cool.’ – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Now that we’re poisoned with the culture of superheroes, I think it’s important to laugh about it. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I learned there are ways to approach life. You can never change the events, but you can change the way you approach them. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
To question your own process is a necessity. If you don’t question yourself, it’s impossible to improve. – 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 think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
When I have been exposed to so many films that are so bad, my soul gets crushed. I just feel intoxicated. – 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 very complicated human exercise – an alchemy that I have never understood. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
In my work I think what drives me is perfection. I’m a chronically unsatisfied guy. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
It’s not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world is hate. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. – 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 love Sam Mendes, but I went to see ‘Spectre’ with my kid, and the opening scene of the Dia de Muertos party, with this kind of tropical music, in downtown Mexico City, with all these people dancing like it’s the Rio de Janeiro carnival… I had to laugh. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu