Alejandro Gonzalez
Alejandro Gonzalez
beach holiday thinking
When you get to the holidays, if you think that the holidays will be forever, you just take it for granted. But, if you know that you have just three days at the beach, you will be so happy to be there, every day.
autumn people film
All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people.
party knowing life-is
It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party.
life-and-death transformation illusion
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.
lasts masochism observing
For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.
stupid tyrants creative
In the creative process, my ego has always been a huge tyrant ... a dictator and kind of rude and very misleading, because sometimes when I'm doing something, I say, "This is great! This is fantastic! Very genius!" And 20 minutes later, I feel like a dead jellyfish. "You are a stupid a**hole. This is a piece of sh*t. Nobody will care about it."
fun thinking people
There's nothing better than being in a film that translates to audiences and makes people think and feel good and walk away with great revelations in their own life of some kind. But when the process and the experience and the fun of that matches, it's a good feeling.
deny shots
I never deny a true experience in one shot.
oscars condom enjoy
Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.
real acting actors
The actors make the film. They're the ones that take this theoretical movie that's in your head and make it real. The success of a film is entirely on their shoulders. I admire them, because acting is such a difficult thing to do, and I personally can't understand it.
thinking movies-in-general should-have
I think movies in general should have more respect for the audience than they do. Too many films are afraid to confuse people, so all the information is given to them right away, and there's nothing left for the film to do. It ruins many stories, because everything becomes obvious and predictable. I want my films to engage people more and make them more actively involved in the story.
exercise thinking substance
I was aware of the possible biases you could get as a commercial director, like being too concerned about the technical aspects of the form rather than anything of substance. If you keep working in commercials, you can get trapped in a very superficial way of thinking. I always used commercials as an exercise for filmmaking, like going to the gym.
want scripts perfectionist
Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want.
country real sick
My country has been wracked with violence for a long time. Just to see all the violence on the news makes you sick. It's true that violence is in our nature, but I try to explore deeply where it comes from and where it goes and what it creates. Not in a moralistic or preachy way, but just to observe the real consequences of violence in a human being or in a society.