Alejandro Gonzalez
Alejandro Gonzalez
brief elements existed forms maybe period realize
We have always existed in different forms - carbon, oxygen, water, heat. Maybe Heaven is this brief period when the elements realize they're alive.
directors hundred mexico rural scared shoot stories
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.
comedians dark famous personal state
It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.
art bad commercial films movies
I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films.
direct experience scary studied vulnerable
I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable without the possibility to control things, to be so exposed.
love structural structure works wrote
I love the three-act theory. It works and works beautifully. But you don't necessarily have to structure a story that way: Cortazar and Borges wrote in different structural styles.
life saw surprised
I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.
I think when you turn 50 you get a little melancholic in a way.
bad good
I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.
I think we are all connected in this world.
I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.
death fearing life terms wrestle
I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.
death people reject technology
I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.
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I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary.