Latest Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes from Interviews

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• Every time that I'm challenged with a film I think that I haven't learned anything, that every film is different and that every thing that I have learned is useless in this new adventure.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Adventure, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• How can [actors] learn their lines and be honest in front of 30 people and all the lights? It makes me cry sometimes. I can't understand how they can be joking with me 30 seconds before, and 40 seconds later they're giving me all this incredible feeling.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Light, People, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The actors make the film. They're the ones that take this theoretical movie that's in your head and make it real. The success of a film is entirely on their shoulders. I admire them, because acting is such a difficult thing to do, and I personally can't understand it.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Real, Acting, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When people laugh and applaud as characters are killing each other, and you never see the body that's lying there, or you never see the family that suffers, then it turns into a cool thing to do, like a videogame. Then, when you watch the news and see that 15 soldiers were killed, you start to see them as just numbers, material, information, images. We lose the real weight and real value of one simple human life.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Real, Lying, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

• You hear about bombings in other countries, or numbers like "10,000 people died" - you hear that number and you think, "Well, I saw that yesterday in a film, and that didn't look so bad." Younger viewers, in particular, lose perspective on reality.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Country, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

• My country has been wracked with violence for a long time. Just to see all the violence on the news makes you sick. It's true that violence is in our nature, but I try to explore deeply where it comes from and where it goes and what it creates. Not in a moralistic or preachy way, but just to observe the real consequences of violence in a human being or in a society.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Country, Real, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Violence, Handle, Frivolous

  Source: www.avclub.com

• As a sensitive filmmaker, I think you have to really be careful in how you explore it. Not that you can't tell any story you want - I'm not calling for censorship or anything. But if you're going to have violence, I think it's important to deal with the consequences of that on a human level, not just to make people laugh.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I hate superficial violence. It's shallow and stupid, and the impact on the audience is really bad.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Hate, Stupid, Impact

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Want, Scripts, Perfectionist

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think movies in general should have more respect for the audience than they do. Too many films are afraid to confuse people, so all the information is given to them right away, and there's nothing left for the film to do. It ruins many stories, because everything becomes obvious and predictable. I want my films to engage people more and make them more actively involved in the story.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Thinking, Movies In General, Should Have

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I respect BMW for not interfering in these projects. They're just trying to support short films with their brand, which I think is great.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Thinking, Bmw, Support

  Source: www.avclub.com

• One of the reasons why I agreed to do commercials is that they gave me complete freedom. I just had to have the car in it and write a story around it. I wanted to do something serious set in a Latin American country, but again, it was an exercise in style for me.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Country, Latin, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I don't have anything against commercials, and I really like BMWs.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Bmw

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good exercise, because I learned to tell little stories.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Writing, Exercise, Stories

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I was aware of the possible biases you could get as a commercial director, like being too concerned about the technical aspects of the form rather than anything of substance. If you keep working in commercials, you can get trapped in a very superficial way of thinking. I always used commercials as an exercise for filmmaking, like going to the gym.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Exercise, Thinking, Directors

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I understand when there's no money for the arts in the government, but it should maybe pressure private companies to support more filmmakers. These exhibition and distribution companies are huge, and there might be incentives for them to invest more in Mexican cinema.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Art, Government, Mexican

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think the arts should get big support, but my country has a lot of needs more important than film. Medication, education, food... The poverty is overwhelming. There are simply more important things to be attended to.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Country, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films had a lot of things to say that weren't getting expressed in the films I was used to seeing.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Strong, Impact, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I remember, the first time I saw a [Andrei] Tarkovsky film, I was shocked by it. I didn't know what to do. I was fascinated, because suddenly I realized that film could have so many more layers to it than what I had imagined before. Then others, like Kurosawa and Fellini, were like a new discovery for me, another country.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Country, Discovery, Layers

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Cities, Mexico, Saws

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Of course, there's always one theater that shows some kind of European film. Now, fortunately, you have DVDs, so it's possible to get anything you want within a few hours. In those days, it was virtually impossible to get Italian films, or German films, or whatever. So I grew up with very standard, mainstream films.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Italian, Dvds, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I've listened to music all my life. I've always felt that music tells more stories sometimes than films, with more possibilities. Every time you listen to them, songs bring different images and moods - depending on where you are in your life, you can listen to a song and it means something different.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Song, Mean, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Musician, Film, Reason

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Actually, 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. On the last trip, I stayed in Europe for one year with $1,000, working everywhere I could, doing everything. Those years shaped me a lot and taught me the value of exploring different things.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Growing Up, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com