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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Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.
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When we are looking for validation, that will never satisfy us. When we are looking for affection, for love, a little bit of that will be enough to be complete.
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When you are shooting in a conventional way, you put nets around yourself. It's very hard to fall and hit the ground. You can always manipulate things to make it not embarrassing. If the scene is a little bit bad, you can polish it or even take it out. You can hide your mistakes.
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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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Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.
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My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.
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You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life.
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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.
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My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.
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Look, I'm no purist - there are good superhero films, and there are bad ones.
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When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective.
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When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there's nothing funny about it.
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The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.
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It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world is hate.