Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial.

I have fantastic ideas.

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

You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life.

I think there's nothing wrong with being fixated on superheroes when you are 7 years old, but I think there's a disease in not growing up.

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.

I'm overwhelmed by the pain in the world; I'm affected by the news very much, and adding that to my work was becoming a little bit too much.

We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity.

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party. When you get to the holidays, if you think that the holidays will be forever, you just take it for granted. But, if you know that you have just three days at the beach, you will be so happy to be there every day.

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

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

I think musically.

When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there's nothing funny about it.

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. I have to have the wheel.

I have a bad reputation, I guess.

I love Sam Mendes, but I went to see 'Spectre' with my kid, and the opening scene of the Dia de Muertos party, with this kind of tropical music, in downtown Mexico City, with all these people dancing like it's the Rio de Janeiro carnival... I had to laugh.

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.