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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The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial.
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When you are shooting in a conventional way, you put nets around yourself. It's very hard to fall and hit the ground. You can always manipulate things to make it not embarrassing. If the scene is a little bit bad, you can polish it or even take it out. You can hide your mistakes.
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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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When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective.
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When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there's nothing funny about it.
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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 do think that the emotional weight of 'Biutiful' has blinded some viewers to the beauty and complexity of the film.
I can be unbearable sometimes asking for so many takes.
I am not a depressive person at all.
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I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.
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I always have considered Michael Keaton to be a phenomenal actor because he navigates drama and comedy.
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Good directors don't answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion.
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For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.
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Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.