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
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu quotes about
countries express points spread third
As a Third World citizen, I always feel that I need to express my point of view. Sometimes the points of view of Third World countries are never expressed. We don't have that possibility, sometimes, to spread what we feel and how we see things.
includes literally point points prism views
'Babel' is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It is a prism that allows us to see the same reality from different angles.
age influenced points
At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that literature, there's always an exploration of different perspectives, points of view.
human
I'm very curious, I guess, as a human being.
pronounce time
In hotels, every time I make a reservation and they never find my name, they never can pronounce it; it's so long, and sometimes they confuse.
allen among filmmakers greats van woody
I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky and among current filmmakers von Trier, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai.
'Ikiru' is existential but with a lot of tenderness.
I'm telling the same story in every film.
felt liberating playing
It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.
It's very healthy to be aware of your ego.
hard work
It's hard for me to work for somebody else. I can work with someone, but not for someone.
architecture
The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.
bad letting means putting
To shoot a conventional film means that you are always covering yourself. You are putting nets and, in a way, letting bad decisions take over.
Ultimately, with every film I'd done before, there was a reference. They have their own uniqueness, but there was always a precedent.