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
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My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.
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I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you. The experience was so good.
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Nowadays, a critic has to watch 700, 800 films a year, and I know through experience, being a juror in prestigious film festivals where supposedly the best films are arriving, from twenty films maybe you see two that are good, one that is so-so, and one that is extraordinary. And the other sixteen are terrible.
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I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.
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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.
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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.
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Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.
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Look, I'm no purist - there are good superhero films, and there are bad ones.
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My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.
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Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.
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Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.
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You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life.
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When I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was 16 and 18. One of them crossed through the Mississippi and Baton Rouge and Mobile, Alabama, and another went all the way to Europe.
While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film.