Alejandro Gonzalez
Alejandro Gonzalez
hate stupid impact
I hate superficial violence. It's shallow and stupid, and the impact on the audience is really bad.
real lying character
When people laugh and applaud as characters are killing each other, and you never see the body that's lying there, or you never see the family that suffers, then it turns into a cool thing to do, like a videogame. Then, when you watch the news and see that 15 soldiers were killed, you start to see them as just numbers, material, information, images. We lose the real weight and real value of one simple human life.
country discovery layers
I remember, the first time I saw a [Andrei] Tarkovsky film, I was shocked by it. I didn't know what to do. I was fascinated, because suddenly I realized that film could have so many more layers to it than what I had imagined before. Then others, like Kurosawa and Fellini, were like a new discovery for me, another country.
italian dvds want
Of course, there's always one theater that shows some kind of European film. Now, fortunately, you have DVDs, so it's possible to get anything you want within a few hours. In those days, it was virtually impossible to get Italian films, or German films, or whatever. So I grew up with very standard, mainstream films.
thinking laughing people
As a sensitive filmmaker, I think you have to really be careful in how you explore it. Not that you can't tell any story you want - I'm not calling for censorship or anything. But if you're going to have violence, I think it's important to deal with the consequences of that on a human level, not just to make people laugh.
careers normal cinema
I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.
beautiful thinking littles
I think every beautiful tale in the world hides the truth and reveals it little by little.
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.
met obsessed
I have never met a superhero, but why are we so obsessed with superheroes?
I have learned that I am a one-woman man.
cut final
I have been very lucky to have final cut in all my films; everything that is wrong in them is my fault.