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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I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.
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Good directors don't answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion.
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To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.
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For me, the most important thing that I have to accomplish is to be a good father. That's the most difficult challenge of my life. That's the most important thing for me, more than films.
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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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What good is making a jewel if nobody see it? But cost depends on the story. To get those performances in 'Biutiful,' you need that time. You need 60 takes in a scene and a year to edit. It's not realistic to do it any other way.
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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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Look, I'm no purist - there are good superhero films, and there are bad ones.
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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.