Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

Rhythm is God. I think, without rhythm, you can't create - there is no art.
Sad music, I always thought, is more beautiful than other music. But at the same time, I am in my personal life a very happy guy. I have a sense of humor. I am not the kind of depressed guy all the time brooding. No. I am very enthusiastic about things.
Sometimes reading scripts is terrible.
That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.
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.
The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.
The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.
The demographic complexity of this country should be reflected not only at the end of the chain, but since the beginning, in order that more of these people can be excited and integrated.
The emotions of the actors are better when they understand the chronological factors that are adding to the story.
The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.
The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literature.
The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.
The way America sees Mexico, if they have any sense of it, is like Taco Bell. Our countries are neighbors, and the only hard food to get in America is true Mexican. It's impossible to find, even in L.A. Why is that?
The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial.
The way I put together images is a reactive art.
There was so much fear after 9/11, and that fear caused people to make the wrong decisions.
Time is what allows stories to spread into people's consciousness.
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.
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.
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.
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