I can’t understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it’s great, but I don’t know how to do that. I have to have the wheel. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Trump doesn’t know it yet, but he will become one of the guys that he hates very soon. Soon he will be a loser. – 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 days at the beach, you will be so happy to be there every day. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I like the possibility of failure. I don’t want to be in a comfortable zone. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
As a Third World citizen, I always feel that I need to express my point of view. Sometimes the points of view of Third World countries are never expressed. We don’t have that possibility, sometimes, to spread what we feel and how we see things. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
As the camera, I try to subordinate every word to be truthful and honest to each character’s context. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I’ve learned to lose with a smile on my face. That’s what the Oscar teaches you. – 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
To think that we can understand everything is such stupidity because our senses are so limited. We are so limited that to feel that we can understand the creation scientifically is a little bit naive. It’s very childish. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Films like ‘Babel’ can transcend the one point-of-view formula that has reigned for so long. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I leave the story room to grow into what the movie is driving me to do. – 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
Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; it’s the same air as Jesus breathed. I would like them to remember that connection. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Good directors don’t answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I have a notebook, and I know what decisions will be made in pre-production. Everything is pre-determined in the pre-production period. I visually design the whole thing, and I know when things will happen. – 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 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
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 one that is extraordinary. And the other sixteen are terrible. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
‘Biutiful’ is a tough film. It doesn’t make concessions to the vulgarity of light entertainment. It’s not the kind of film that you see every day in the Cineplex. But as an artist, it’s the thing that I needed to do. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The emotions of the actors are better when they understand the chronological factors that are adding to the story. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
‘Amores Perros’ is rock, ’21 Grams’ is jazz, ‘Babel’ is an opera, and ‘Biutiful’ is a requiem. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and I’ve always found my way through it in different ways. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu