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I've never done a period piece or a comedy, and that could be something truly different for me.

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

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that literature, there's always an exploration of different perspectives, points of view.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It's harder to make real audio than special effects audio.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We are the only alive creatures that are mortals; the animals are immortal, which is why they live stupidly. We are the only creatures that know that we will die, but that is a gift. It's important because we know we have to take advantage and squeeze life and understand why we're here in the first place.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It's very healthy to be aware of your ego.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I started developing 'The Revenant' before 'Birdman.'

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I really didn't want to become branded as 'that multistructural guy.'

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

'Amores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I always have considered Michael Keaton to be a phenomenal actor because he navigates drama and comedy.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I am not a depressive person at all.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I've never done a period piece or a comedy, and that could be something truly different for me.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in love with everybody, but unfortunately, nobody was in love with me.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I have always been very wary of what would happen when I die. I feel I would die every day, and that thought sometimes made me more aware that I am alive.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The way America sees Mexico, if they have any sense of it, is like Taco Bell. Our countries are neighbors, and the only hard food to get in America is true Mexican. It's impossible to find, even in L.A. Why is that?

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I was about to turn 50, I went into a kind of personal revision and observed my own priorities and what led those priorities in my life. And many things that, in a way, were profound.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It's hard for me to work for somebody else. I can work with someone, but not for someone.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I want the camerawork to fit the narrative and tell the story from the point of view of the character, but sometimes, to be interacting with the sensations of the story, you almost become like a ghost, you know? Like, someone that is floating, observing, not really judging what's going on.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

To shoot a conventional film means that you are always covering yourself. You are putting nets and, in a way, letting bad decisions take over.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When you have a fresh point of view that comes from the right side of the heart, it's just so valuable. You can take it or not take it, but just that perspective can give you a lot of strength or make you reflect on a lot of things.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'm scared of horses, and I don't know how to shoot them, but that's what excites me. After 40 years old, if you don't do some things that really terrify you, I don't think they're worth doing.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

In families you can find the source of every human drama. It is interesting because the cell of a society, the cell of a country, the cell of humanity - everything lies in the family.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Now is a time where there are so many social networks, such need for validation... you don't have to be a star or a politician to want to have likes or dislikes. Now there is a disease of popularity in the whole society.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I can't imagine David Lean justifying why he went to the desert to shoot 'Lawrence of Arabia.'

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they focus on. So they work for corporate interest instead of artistic expression.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I like the possibility of failure. I don't want to be in a comfortable zone.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu