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
conscious embrace life
You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life.
brief elements existed forms maybe period realize
We have always existed in different forms - carbon, oxygen, water, heat. Maybe Heaven is this brief period when the elements realize they're alive.
die funny people
When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there's nothing funny about it.
critics filing leaves time
When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective.
met octopus pat
Antonio Sanchez is from Mexico City. I met him at a Pat Metheny concert. He did a solo, and I thought, 'This is an octopus man!'
audio effects harder special
It's harder to make real audio than special effects audio.
condition everybody human
Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation.
discover expose life
All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.
car stories
'Amores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident.
death life point view
I think I want to talk about life from the point of view of death.
kid low mom
My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations.
time
I'm neurotic. I complain all the time. I'm a workaholic. And I'm never satisfied.
creative fear great unknown
Fear of the unknown is a great creative partner.
knowledge
Too much knowledge and analysis can be paralysis.