Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.
To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.
To shoot a conventional film means that you are always covering yourself. You are putting nets and, in a way, letting bad decisions take over.
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.
Too much knowledge and analysis can be paralysis.
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.
Two words guided the making of 'Babel' for me: 'dignity' and 'compassion.' These things are normally forgotten in the making of a lot of films. Normally there is not dignity because the poor and dispossessed in a place like Morocco are portrayed as mere victims, or the Japanese are portrayed as cartoon figures with no humanity.
Ultimately, with every film I'd done before, there was a reference. They have their own uniqueness, but there was always a precedent.
Very little is known about Hugh Glass as a real guy that existed 200 years ago, except that he was attacked by a bear, betrayed and left for dead, and has to survive in the winter. I said, 'What really drives a human to survive those conditions?'
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 squeeze life and understand why we're here in the first place.
We have always existed in different forms - carbon, oxygen, water, heat. Maybe Heaven is this brief period when the elements realize they're alive.
We have lost the taste for the real.
We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity.
We try to show that violence has a consequence - when you create violence, it turns against you.
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.
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.
When I have been exposed to so many films that are so bad, my soul gets crushed. I just feel intoxicated.
When I talk about sad things, I talk about sad things.
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.
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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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15 August, 1963
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