Alejandro Gonzalez
Alejandro Gonzalez
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.
I think when you turn 50 you get a little melancholic in a way.
bad good
I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.
I think we are all connected in this world.
I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.
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.
death people reject technology
I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.
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.
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.
began change geniuses
I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.
feature rehearsals saw tv
I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.
cynical
I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.
minute
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.
beauty blinded complexity viewers
I do think that the emotional weight of 'Biutiful' has blinded some viewers to the beauty and complexity of the film.