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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People talk about the pain of defeat, but I think defeat has a lot of value. I think the wound of victory can be even more damaging than defeat. Very few people really know how to win.
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I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there's no music. Without rhythm, there's no cinema. Without rhythm, there's no architecture.
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The way I put together images is a reactive art.
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'Biutiful' is a tough film. It doesn't make concessions to the vulgarity of light entertainment. It's not the kind of film that you see every day in the Cineplex. But as an artist, it's the thing that I needed to do.
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I've never done a period piece or a comedy, and that could be something truly different for me.
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I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.
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'Russian Ark,' I adore - I almost cried at the end of that film, it's so beautiful.
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Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Directing non-actors in a language that you yourself don't understand is the craziest thing you can possibly think of.
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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.
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We have always existed in different forms - carbon, oxygen, water, heat. Maybe Heaven is this brief period when the elements realize they're alive.
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Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Mexican cinema about little rural towns, or set a hundred years ago.