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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Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.
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I don't have anything against commercials, and I really like BMWs.
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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.
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I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.
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I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn't be defeated by the daily onslaught of problems.
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I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.
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I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.
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I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.
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I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films.
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It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.
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Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Mexican cinema about little rural towns, or set a hundred years ago.
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Now is a time where there are so many social networks, such need for validation... you don't have to be a star or a politician to want to have likes or dislikes. Now there is a disease of popularity in the whole society.
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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.
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People talk about the pain of defeat, but I think defeat has a lot of value. I think the wound of victory can be even more damaging than defeat. Very few people really know how to win.