Alejandro Gonzalez
Alejandro Gonzalez
careers normal cinema
I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.
oscars condom enjoy
Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.
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.
bmw
I don't have anything against commercials, and I really like BMWs.
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.
death people reject technology
I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.
death fearing life terms wrestle
I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.
bad good
I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.
life saw surprised
I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.
love structural structure works wrote
I love the three-act theory. It works and works beautifully. But you don't necessarily have to structure a story that way: Cortazar and Borges wrote in different structural styles.
direct experience scary studied vulnerable
I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable without the possibility to control things, to be so exposed.