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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'Amores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident.
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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.
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I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good exercise, because I learned to tell little stories.
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I've listened to music all my life. I've always felt that music tells more stories sometimes than films, with more possibilities. Every time you listen to them, songs bring different images and moods - depending on where you are in your life, you can listen to a song and it means something different.
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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.