Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

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

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.

I think every beautiful tale in the world hides the truth and reveals it little by little.

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party.

For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.

I never deny a true experience in one shot.

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

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

All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people.

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.

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

All people know that they will die, but they don't actually believe it.

I always think politicians and even my dentist have more egos than actors.

In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.

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

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.

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.

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

Too much knowledge and analysis can be paralysis.

if you want to be understood ...Listen.

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

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

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.

'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.

I think that the best things come from thought, without thinking. I think that's the smartest use of the intelligence that we all have.

The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.

My kid will come home from seeing the latest 'Transformers' movie, and I'll ask him, 'How was it?' 'Amazing!' 'What was it about?' 'I don't know, but it was amazing!'

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.

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

I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.

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.

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

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.

I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.

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.