Alejandro Gonzalez
Alejandro Gonzalez
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.
basically fact family films global social
I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary.
defeated order
I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn't be defeated by the daily onslaught of problems.
began change geniuses
I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.
feature rehearsals saw tv
I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.
cynical
I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.
financed matters past
Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.
affected baton boats crossed rouge travels
When I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was 16 and 18. One of them crossed through the Mississippi and Baton Rouge and Mobile, Alabama, and another went all the way to Europe.
While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film.
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.
time
Time is what allows stories to spread into people's consciousness.
experience extension few numerous virtues vital
My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.
conscious embrace life
You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life.