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My duty is to make probable the improbable. If I tell you how I did it, I will ruin your experience.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with parents, brothers and sisters.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I have ADD. I can't pay attention to one thing too long.

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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

I define myself from a vision, from a point of view of life.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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.

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Time is what allows stories to spread into people's consciousness.

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I love the three-act theory. It works and works beautifully. But you don't necessarily have to structure a story that way: Cortazar and Borges wrote in different structural styles.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

In my work I think what drives me is perfection. I'm a chronically unsatisfied guy.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

For me, it is especially important to maintain my interior life. My spirituality, my connectedness. That is the way I think. That is the way I deal with life and tough moments. I keep in touch with something bigger than me. And I connect with people who have an interior life - a connection with something bigger than them.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

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Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves.

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Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.

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I think, unfortunately, everything is becoming about comfort, you know? A comfortable way to tell a story. The comfortable way, so that the audience will never be lost. A comfortable way to produce a film with green screens or without a lot of physical effort or losing control because of the weather or physical locations.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Two words guided the making of 'Babel' for me: 'dignity' and 'compassion.' These things are normally forgotten in the making of a lot of films. Normally there is not dignity because the poor and dispossessed in a place like Morocco are portrayed as mere victims, or the Japanese are portrayed as cartoon figures with no humanity.

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That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.

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The demographic complexity of this country should be reflected not only at the end of the chain, but since the beginning, in order that more of these people can be excited and integrated.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

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

All my films I have shot in chronological order - always. And the reason is that there's a moment that the screenplay is the notion of the film. But when you start doing a film... the work itself starts being transformed, and you have to surrender.

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

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Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment.

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I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.

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I think I want to talk about life from the point of view of death.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'm an intense person. My own vision of life has always been heavy.

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'Babel' is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It is a prism that allows us to see the same reality from different angles.

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When I talk about sad things, I talk about sad things.

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The emotions of the actors are better when they understand the chronological factors that are adding to the story.

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I don't have a career. I have a life.

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On a transcendental level, a film is not going to be better or worse because there's a prize behind it. The work will be what it is, with or without a prize.

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To think that we can understand everything is such stupidity because our senses are so limited. We are so limited that to feel that we can understand the creation scientifically is a little bit naive. It's very childish.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu