Alejandro Gonzalez
Alejandro Gonzalez
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Nowadays, a critic has to watch 700, 800 films a year, and I know through experience, being a juror in prestigious film festivals where supposedly the best films are arriving, from twenty films maybe you see two that are good, one that is so-so, and one that is extraordinary. And the other sixteen are terrible.
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Now is a time where there are so many social networks, such need for validation... you don't have to be a star or a politician to want to have likes or dislikes. Now there is a disease of popularity in the whole society.
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My kid will come home from seeing the latest 'Transformers' movie, and I'll ask him, 'How was it?' 'Amazing!' 'What was it about?' 'I don't know, but it was amazing!'
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Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; it's the same air as Jesus breathed. I would like them to remember that connection.
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At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that literature, there's always an exploration of different perspectives, points of view.
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'Babel' is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It is a prism that allows us to see the same reality from different angles.
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There was so much fear after 9/11, and that fear caused people to make the wrong decisions.
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As a Third World citizen, I always feel that I need to express my point of view. Sometimes the points of view of Third World countries are never expressed. We don't have that possibility, sometimes, to spread what we feel and how we see things.
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Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.
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Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.
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If the audience, in minute 50, is thinking about the way a movie is shot, there's a problem. I want it to permeate emotionally.
dramatic responsibility
My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.
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Look, I'm no purist - there are good superhero films, and there are bad ones.
I'm telling the same story in every film.