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
beauty blinded complexity viewers
I do think that the emotional weight of 'Biutiful' has blinded some viewers to the beauty and complexity of the film.
time
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.
financed matters past
Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.
careers normal cinema
I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.
cities saws mexico
I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.
real acting actors
The actors make the film. They're the ones that take this theoretical movie that's in your head and make it real. The success of a film is entirely on their shoulders. I admire them, because acting is such a difficult thing to do, and I personally can't understand it.
oscars condom enjoy
Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.
real kids cities
I was a street kid, basically. But really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and I've always found my way through it in different ways.
life-and-death transformation illusion
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.
party knowing life-is
It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party.
deny shots
I never deny a true experience in one shot.
growing-up thinking years
Actually, 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. On the last trip, I stayed in Europe for one year with $1,000, working everywhere I could, doing everything. Those years shaped me a lot and taught me the value of exploring different things.
stupid tyrants creative
In the creative process, my ego has always been a huge tyrant ... a dictator and kind of rude and very misleading, because sometimes when I'm doing something, I say, "This is great! This is fantastic! Very genius!" And 20 minutes later, I feel like a dead jellyfish. "You are a stupid a**hole. This is a piece of sh*t. Nobody will care about it."