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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I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that. I have to have the wheel.
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I'm overwhelmed by the pain in the world; I'm affected by the news very much, and adding that to my work was becoming a little bit too much.
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Films like 'Babel' can transcend the one point-of-view formula that has reigned for so long.
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The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.
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As the camera, I try to subordinate every word to be truthful and honest to each character's context.
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'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.
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Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it.
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Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.
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Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.
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Good directors don't answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion.
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I always have considered Michael Keaton to be a phenomenal actor because he navigates drama and comedy.
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I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.
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Time is what allows stories to spread into people's consciousness.
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When I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was 16 and 18. One of them crossed through the Mississippi and Baton Rouge and Mobile, Alabama, and another went all the way to Europe.