Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Alejandro González Iñárrituis 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. He is also the first Mexican-born director to have won the Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 August 1963
CountryMexico
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When you have a fresh point of view that comes from the right side of the heart, it's just so valuable. You can take it or not take it, but just that perspective can give you a lot of strength or make you reflect on a lot of things.
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I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.
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Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.
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When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.
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I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with parents, brothers and sisters.
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To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.
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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.
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I think there's nothing wrong with being fixated on superheroes when you are 7 years old, but I think there's a disease in not growing up.
life
I don't have a career. I have a life.
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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.
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We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity.
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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.
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When I have been exposed to so many films that are so bad, my soul gets crushed. I just feel intoxicated.
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The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.