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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When I have been exposed to so many films that are so bad, my soul gets crushed. I just feel intoxicated.
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Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Directing non-actors in a language that you yourself don't understand is the craziest thing you can possibly think of.
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If the audience, in minute 50, is thinking about the way a movie is shot, there's a problem. I want it to permeate emotionally.
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In 'A Confession,' Tolstoy found meaning that he could hold on to, and he lived for another 30 years.
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The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.
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I'm an intense person. My own vision of life has always been heavy.
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The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.
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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.
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I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.
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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.
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I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.
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It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.
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Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Mexican cinema about little rural towns, or set a hundred years ago.
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On a transcendental level, a film is not going to be better or worse because there's a prize behind it. The work will be what it is, with or without a prize.