Alejandro Gonzalez
Alejandro Gonzalez
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.
I have ADD. I can't pay attention to one thing too long.
cool pop tone
I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'
audiences films foreign market
When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but the market has been reduced, unfortunately, and you know that when you're making a foreign language film, you're making a choice.
bit fall hard hide hit manipulate polish scene shooting
When you are shooting in a conventional way, you put nets around yourself. It's very hard to fall and hit the ground. You can always manipulate things to make it not embarrassing. If the scene is a little bit bad, you can polish it or even take it out. You can hide your mistakes.
absolutely fell love nobody romantic
When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in love with everybody, but unfortunately, nobody was in love with me.
led life observed revision turn
When I was about to turn 50, I went into a kind of personal revision and observed my own priorities and what led those priorities in my life. And many things that, in a way, were profound.
cost depends good jewel nobody realistic scene takes time
What good is making a jewel if nobody see it? But cost depends on the story. To get those performances in 'Biutiful,' you need that time. You need 60 takes in a scene and a year to edit. It's not realistic to do it any other way.