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
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.
writing exercise stories
I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good exercise, because I learned to tell little stories.
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.
above deal great tool work
Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.
became bit head irony tail
Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.
experience extension few numerous virtues vital
My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.
conscious embrace life
You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life.
affected baton boats crossed rouge travels
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.
dramatic responsibility
My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.
bad good superhero
Look, I'm no purist - there are good superhero films, and there are bad ones.
critics filing leaves time
When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective.
die funny people
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.
breaks narrative vertical
The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.
aids anthrax disease horrible ill
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.