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
craziest directing rewarding
To direct actors is difficult. To direct actors in another language is more difficult, but directing non-actors in another language is one of the craziest things that I have done and one of the most rewarding experiences I have had.
led life observed revision turn
When I was about to turn 50, I went into a kind of personal revision and observed my own priorities and what led those priorities in my life. And many things that, in a way, were profound.
audiences films foreign market
When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but the market has been reduced, unfortunately, and you know that when you're making a foreign language film, you're making a choice.
lives realized
I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing.
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.
question
To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.
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.
borders flags
Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.
alchemy dislikes entire exercise exposed human life likes matter nobody order people subject successful time
Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood.
art images implies instead movies
Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.
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.