Alejandro Gonzalez
Alejandro Gonzalez
terrified
Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.
entirely execute
Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it.
Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.
basically cannes creating festival films major nature specific
Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment.
death life
'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.
honest truthful word
As the camera, I try to subordinate every word to be truthful and honest to each character's context.
'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem.
Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.
funds hold money signifies
The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.
films
Films like 'Babel' can transcend the one point-of-view formula that has reigned for so long.
adding affected becoming bit work
I'm overwhelmed by the pain in the world; I'm affected by the news very much, and adding that to my work was becoming a little bit too much.
admire conditions corporate designed great
I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that. I have to have the wheel.
complex found mexico
Really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and I've always found my way through it in different ways.
cell families family society source
In families you can find the source of every human drama. It is interesting because the cell of a society, the cell of a country, the cell of humanity - everything lies in the family.