Alejandro Gonzalez
Alejandro Gonzalez
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.
experience good learned liberating terrifies
I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you. The experience was so good.
best critic experience festivals films good maybe sixteen supposedly twenty watch
Nowadays, a critic has to watch 700, 800 films a year, and I know through experience, being a juror in prestigious film festivals where supposedly the best films are arriving, from twenty films maybe you see two that are good, one that is so-so, and one that is extraordinary. And the other sixteen are terrible.
directed experience scary studied vulnerable
I have never directed anything for the stage. 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.
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.
experience powerful
I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.
america believe colombia latin peace
We believe that peace in Colombia isn't important only for Colombia but all of Latin America.
countries government relations required return
What is required immediately is the return of the boy. If this does not happen, the U.S. government will be responsible for the way in which relations between the two countries could worsen.
although direction false understand watching
We are watching all of these initiatives. We understand that although they are initiatives aimed in the right direction ... we also must not have false expectations.
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.
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.