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When you taste a mango in the United States, it's just tasteless.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
You
States
Taste
Just
United
United States
My father had a difficult relationship with success, maybe because he never obtained it. But he was very wise about it because he observed how you can become rotten fruit once you get power.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Success
Relationship
You
Wise
Fruit
Father
Power
Become
Difficult
Once
About
Never
Had
He
Observed
Obtained
Because
How
Very
Get
Maybe
Rotten
Very little is known about Hugh Glass as a real guy that existed 200 years ago, except that he was attacked by a bear, betrayed and left for dead, and has to survive in the winter. I said, 'What really drives a human to survive those conditions?'
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Winter
Those
About
Betrayed
Guy
Bear
Attacked
Except
Drives
He
Glass
Dead
Known
Said
Real
Years
Years Ago
Existed
Conditions
Left
Very
Survive
Hugh
Human
Little
To Survive
Really
I started developing 'The Revenant' before 'Birdman.'
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Before
Developing
Started
I leave the story room to grow into what the movie is driving me to do.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Me
Driving
Leave
Movie
Story
Room
Grow
I personally think that you have to get lost to find something really worthwhile, at least sometimes.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
You
Sometimes
Lost
Think
Worthwhile
Find
Something
Least
Get
Personally
Really
It's different if you're self-fed by a culture such as the U.S. where it's so rich, you don't have to look outside. Everything's already there. But when you grow up in the desert, you have to be looking all over for inspiration.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
You
Culture
Looking
Rich
Everything
Inspiration
Outside
Over
Look
Up
Where
Different
Grow
Grow Up
Desert
I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Great
Corporate
Admire
Know
Understand
How
Conditions
Getting
Being
Product
Designed
Millions
I have to have the wheel. It's given me an opportunity to experience and explore things.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Me
Experience
Opportunity
Given
Wheel
Explore
Things
If I had been at an assembly line for films, I don't know if I would be the best driver. I think I would have crashed the car.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Best
Car
Think
Films
Would
Would-Be
Driver
Had
Know
Line
Been
Crashed
Assembly
Assembly Line
When you shoot in a room, that's a symmetrical thing that contains you. When there's no contention, the sensation is overwhelming you. That's a challenge, to do that.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
You
Challenge
Overwhelming
Contains
Contention
Shoot
Sensation
Room
Thing
Symmetrical
Rhythm is God. I think, without rhythm, you can't create - there is no art.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Art
God
You
Think
Without
Rhythm
Create
My films are like clouds: their meaning keeps changing every minute.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Clouds
Every
Films
Changing
Minute
Like
Meaning
Keeps
In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider's web. It shows that the truth sticks inside.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Truth
You
Together
Speak
Plant
Spider
Made
Mouth
String
Secrets
Inside
Web
Drink
Take
Bottle
Cactus
Between
Like
Sticks
Leaves
Mexico
Behind
Want
Your
Deep
Shows
Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Change
Age
Hate
Society
Inculcated
Borders
Religious
Economic
Cultural
Dense
Human
Human Society
Early
Early Age
The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
World
Lot
Violence
Violent
You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Attitude
Time
You
World
Space
Live
Every
Different
Us
Different World
Lives
Image
I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Art
Me
You
Soul
Picture
Side
Poetry
Unconscious
Like
Make
Understand
Am
Coming
Intellectual
Artist
Place
Your
Deep
When I'm tired, I see industrial pictures. But I'll see one every two months. If I see one every day, I'll become an idiot.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Day
Tired
Every Day
Idiot
Become
Every
Months
See
Pictures
Industrial
Two
In Chile, they have no movies. They have awful popular movies.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Chile
Movies
Popular
Awful
When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.' And for three years, I was there working with him being a surrealist.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Three
Country
Abandoned
Andre
Adolescent
Paris
Come
Know
Him
Years
Surrealism
Surrealist
Being
Working
Pope
I felt so alone as a boy because no one wanted to be friends with me.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alone
Me
No-One
Because
Felt
Boy
Friends
Wanted
I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Art
Cinema
Thought
Complete
Most
Always
Arts
Maybe I am a prophet. I really hope one day there will come Confucius, Muhammad, Buddha and Christ to see me. And we will sit at a table, taking tea and eating some brownies.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Hope
Day
Me
Christ
Will
Sit
Tea
One Day
Table
See
Some
Eating
Prophet
Buddha
Taking
Come
Am
Maybe
Confucius
Really
Muhammad
I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Mind
Living
Am
Normal
Normal Person
Person
Body
My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Family
Father
Monster
See
Never
Again
Them
Cut
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