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
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.
financed matters past
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.
bad good superhero
Look, I'm no purist - there are good superhero films, and there are bad ones.
dramatic responsibility
My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.
experience extension few numerous virtues vital
My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.
above deal great tool work
Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.
became bit head irony tail
Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.
conscious embrace life
You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life.
affected baton boats crossed rouge travels
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.
I really didn't want to become branded as 'that multistructural guy.'
lives realized
I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing.
experience good learned liberating terrifies
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.
people work worked
I know how to work with people. I've worked with the same people for 10 years. I'm not that kind of auteur. I hear ideas.