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
accomplish challenge difficult good life
For me, the most important thing that I have to accomplish is to be a good father. That's the most difficult challenge of my life. That's the most important thing for me, more than films.
call high higher might
I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I'm able to accomplish.
bet emotional honest invest open protect touches
In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an emotional charge, I bet for catharsis. I like to invest emotionally in things. And catharsis, when it touches the emotional vein, can open the doors of even those who protect themselves.
funny time tragic upside
When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.
beings brothers defined family human relationships
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.
fixated
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.
films gets
When I have been exposed to so many films that are so bad, my soul gets crushed. I just feel intoxicated.
breaks narrative vertical
The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.