Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Alejandro González Iñárrituis a Mexican film director, producer, screenwriter, and former composer. He is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, for Babel. He is also the first Mexican-born director to have won the Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 August 1963
CountryMexico
art bad commercial films movies
I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films.
direct experience scary studied vulnerable
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.
love structural structure works wrote
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.
life saw surprised
I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.
I think when you turn 50 you get a little melancholic in a way.
bad good
I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.
I think we are all connected in this world.
I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.
death fearing life terms wrestle
I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.
death people reject technology
I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.
basically fact family films global social
I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary.
defeated order
I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn't be defeated by the daily onslaught of problems.
began change geniuses
I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.
feature rehearsals saw tv
I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.