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
violence handle frivolous
I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it.
real lying character
When people laugh and applaud as characters are killing each other, and you never see the body that's lying there, or you never see the family that suffers, then it turns into a cool thing to do, like a videogame. Then, when you watch the news and see that 15 soldiers were killed, you start to see them as just numbers, material, information, images. We lose the real weight and real value of one simple human life.
want scripts perfectionist
Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want.
thinking bmw support
I respect BMW for not interfering in these projects. They're just trying to support short films with their brand, which I think is great.
bmw
I don't have anything against commercials, and I really like BMWs.
exercise thinking substance
I was aware of the possible biases you could get as a commercial director, like being too concerned about the technical aspects of the form rather than anything of substance. If you keep working in commercials, you can get trapped in a very superficial way of thinking. I always used commercials as an exercise for filmmaking, like going to the gym.
light giving people
How can [actors] learn their lines and be honest in front of 30 people and all the lights? It makes me cry sometimes. I can't understand how they can be joking with me 30 seconds before, and 40 seconds later they're giving me all this incredible feeling.
million time
We want to conquer the world and have 1,000 likes, 1 million likes, but at the same time, we are depressed. We are lonely, but we have 10,000 followers. We are all bipolar.
cynical
I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.
feature rehearsals saw tv
I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.
began change geniuses
I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.
defeated order
I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn't be defeated by the daily onslaught of problems.
basically fact family films global social
I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary.
death people reject technology
I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.