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
bubble built high incredible work
That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.
age influenced points
At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that literature, there's always an exploration of different perspectives, points of view.
became bit head irony tail
Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.
kids mexicans millions painful
Millions of Mexicans leave their kids in order to take care of other kids. That's a very painful thing.
felt liberating playing
It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.
air breathe easily europe jesus
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.
needed vulgarity
'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.
learned lose smile teaches
I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.
bad good superhero
Look, I'm no purist - there are good superhero films, and there are bad ones.
art images
The way I put together images is a reactive art.
includes literally point points prism views
'Babel' is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It is a prism that allows us to see the same reality from different angles.
pronounce time
In hotels, every time I make a reservation and they never find my name, they never can pronounce it; it's so long, and sometimes they confuse.
directed experience scary studied vulnerable
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.
ends process time
I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.