Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Mexican Director

Born: Aug 15, 1963

Life Me Think Time Will You

Related authors: Alfred Hitchcock David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen

I'm neurotic. I complain all the time. I'm a workaholic. And I'm never satisfied. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Time Satisfied Complain Neurotic Never Workaholic

I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky and among current filmmakers von Trier, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think we are all connected in this world. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

World Think Connected

I can be unbearable sometimes asking for so many takes. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Sometimes Unbearable Takes Asking Many

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

You Comedy Will Become Always Tragedy Stretch

The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Money Cinema Corporation Make Want Hold Anything Hedge Hollywood Funds

As the camera, I try to subordinate every word to be truthful and honest to each character's context. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Character Try Word Every Context Camera Truthful Subordinate Each Honest

'Russian Ark,' I adore - I almost cried at the end of that film, it's so beautiful. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Beautiful Cried Russian Adore Almost Ark End Film

I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there's no music. Without rhythm, there's no cinema. Without rhythm, there's no architecture. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Music Me You Director Architecture Cinema Everything Kind See Only Without Any Artist Rhythm Requirement

I think when you turn 50 you get a little melancholic in a way. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

You Think Way Get Little Turn

Now that we're poisoned with the culture of superheroes, I think it's important to laugh about it. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Culture Important Think Laugh About Superheroes Poisoned Now

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. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Problem Thinking Way Minute About Emotionally Audience Want Movie Shot

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. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Life Time You Yourself People Complicated Matter Be Yourself Else Way Entire Entire Life Never Nobody Nobody Else Liked Likes Exercise Understand How Understood Subject Very Same Human Same Time Order Dislikes Successful Exposed Actor Alchemy

Ultimately, with every film I'd done before, there was a reference. They have their own uniqueness, but there was always a precedent. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Before Own Every Always Reference Ultimately Precedent Done Uniqueness Film

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literature. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

You Problem Will Honestly Else Kind Something Something Else Absolutely Weird Know Very Blueprint Screenplay The Problem With Literature Transformed Film Technical

I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at the same time functioning. That's why I think a smart script has two things living in the same place, and they're absolutely contradictory. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Who cares about my opinions? Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Cares About Opinions Who Who Cares

I have never met a superhero, but why are we so obsessed with superheroes? Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Met Superhero Superheroes Never Obsessed Why

Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Cinema Take Advantage Think Medium Take Advantage Infinite Should

I never deny a true experience in one shot. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Experience Never True Deny Shot

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