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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Problems:
Really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has ...
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about World:
As a Third World citizen, I always feel that I need to express my point ...
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Mom:
My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I ...
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Work:
All my films I have shot in chronological order - always. And the reason is ...
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Work:
I'm overwhelmed by the pain in the world, I'm affected by the news very much, ...
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Heart:
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'21 Grams' is only one story told by three different points of view, but they are really physically connected - literally, with the heart.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Work:
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All my films I have shot in chronological order - always. And the reason is that there's a moment that the screenplay is the notion of the film. But when you start doing a film... the work itself starts being transformed, and you have to surrender.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Life:
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Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Doing:
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Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Life:
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All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Remember:
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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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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Man:
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Antonio Sanchez is from Mexico City. I met him at a Pat Metheny concert. He did a solo, and I thought, 'This is an octopus man!'
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Car:
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'Amores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Jazz:
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'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Day:
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As a city, it is always compelling. But every day in Mexico City, I give thanks that I am alive.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about World:
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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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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Age:
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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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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Character:
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As the camera, I try to subordinate every word to be truthful and honest to each character's context.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Hero:
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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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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Day:
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'Biutiful' is a tough film. It doesn't make concessions to the vulgarity of light entertainment. It's not the kind of film that you see every day in the Cineplex. But as an artist, it's the thing that I needed to do.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Beautiful:
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'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Life:
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'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Mirror:
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Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Nature:
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Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Cinema:
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Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Yourself:
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Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Directing non-actors in a language that you yourself don't understand is the craziest thing you can possibly think of.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Think:
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Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Water:
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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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Looking:
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Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Special:
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Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Reason:
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Everything is reason. If you don't have reason, you have nothing.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Long:
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Films like 'Babel' can transcend the one point-of-view formula that has reigned for so long.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Time:
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Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Life:
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For me, it is especially important to maintain my interior life. My spirituality, my connectedness. That is the way I think. That is the way I deal with life and tough moments. I keep in touch with something bigger than me. And I connect with people who have an interior life - a connection with something bigger than them.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Life:
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For me, the most important thing that I have to accomplish is to be a good father. That's the most difficult challenge of my life. That's the most important thing for me, more than films.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Truth:
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For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Work:
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Good directors don't answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Freedom:
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Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. When you are by yourself, you have to develop a third eye.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Time:
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From the time we open our eyes, we live in a Steadicam form, and the only editing is when we talk about our lives or remember things.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Comedy:
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I always have considered Michael Keaton to be a phenomenal actor because he navigates drama and comedy.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Life:
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I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Time:
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I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time, advertising gives you a lot of vices, for example, an obsession for a superficial look, but at the same time, it gives you the capacity to synthesize the story - tell a story in one minute.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Sometimes:
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I can be unbearable sometimes asking for so many takes.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Desert:
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I can't imagine David Lean justifying why he went to the desert to shoot 'Lawrence of Arabia.'
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Great:
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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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Life:
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I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Beauty:
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I do think that the emotional weight of 'Biutiful' has blinded some viewers to the beauty and complexity of the film.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Life:
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I define myself from a vision, from a point of view of life.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Time:
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I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Creative:
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I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I'm able to accomplish.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Culture:
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I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Design:
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I have a notebook, and I know what decisions will be made in pre-production. Everything is pre-determined in the pre-production period. I visually design the whole thing, and I know when things will happen.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Long:
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I have ADD. I can't pay attention to one thing too long.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Experience:
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I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Myself:
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I have always considered myself to be spiritual in a way that has less to do with religion and more with an awareness that you have, and the consciousness you have of being alive and the consciousness that you will be dead.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Day:
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I have always been very wary of what would happen when I die. I feel I would die every day, and that thought sometimes made me more aware that I am alive.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Lucky:
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I have been very lucky to have final cut in all my films, everything that is wrong in them is my fault.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Experience:
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I have never directed anything for the stage. 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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Superhero:
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I have never met a superhero, but why are we so obsessed with superheroes?
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Work:
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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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Life:
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I learned there are ways to approach life. You can never change the events, but you can change the way you approach them.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Experience:
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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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Grow:
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I leave the story room to grow into what the movie is driving me to do.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Different:
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I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky and among current filmmakers von Trier, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Bad:
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I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Failure:
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I like the possibility of failure. I don't want to be in a comfortable zone.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Love:
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I love Sam Mendes, but I went to see 'Spectre' with my kid, and the opening scene of the Dia de Muertos party, with this kind of tropical music, in downtown Mexico City, with all these people dancing like it's the Rio de Janeiro carnival... I had to laugh.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Love:
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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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Want:
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I really didn't want to become branded as 'that multistructural guy.'
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about I Am:
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I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Music:
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I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there's no music. Without rhythm, there's no cinema. Without rhythm, there's no architecture.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Try:
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I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Started:
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I started developing 'The Revenant' before 'Birdman.'
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Writing:
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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Experience:
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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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Art:
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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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Change:
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I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Life:
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I think I want to talk about life from the point of view of death.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Time:
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I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at the same time functioning. That's why I think a smart script has two things living in the same place, and they're absolutely contradictory.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Daily:
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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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Family:
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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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Technology:
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I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Life:
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I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Growing Up:
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I think there's nothing wrong with being fixated on superheroes when you are 7 years old, but I think there's a disease in not growing up.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Think:
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I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Family:
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I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with parents, brothers and sisters.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Good:
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I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Thinking:
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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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Think:
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I think when you turn 50 you get a little melancholic in a way.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Tragedy:
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If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Existential:
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'Ikiru' is existential but with a lot of tenderness.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Life:
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I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Life:
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I'm an intense person. My own vision of life has always been heavy.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Truth:
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I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Work:
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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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Time:
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I'm neurotic. I complain all the time. I'm a workaholic. And I'm never satisfied.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Me:
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I'm scared of horses, and I don't know how to shoot them, but that's what excites me. After 40 years old, if you don't do some things that really terrify you, I don't think they're worth doing.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about World:
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In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an emotional charge, I bet for catharsis. I like to invest emotionally in things. And catharsis, when it touches the emotional vein, can open the doors of even those who protect themselves.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Meaning:
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In 'A Confession,' Tolstoy found meaning that he could hold on to, and he lived for another 30 years.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Family:
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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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Time:
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In hotels, every time I make a reservation and they never find my name, they never can pronounce it, it's so long, and sometimes they confuse.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Head:
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Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Experience:
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Innocence can be more powerful than experience.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Work:
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In my work I think what drives me is perfection. I'm a chronically unsatisfied guy.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Jazz:
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It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Work:
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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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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Deep:
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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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Work:
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It's hard for me to work for somebody else. I can work with someone, but not for someone.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Special:
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It's harder to make real audio than special effects audio.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Hate:
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It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world is hate.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Life:
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It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party. When you get to the holidays, if you think that the holidays will be forever, you just take it for granted. But, if you know that you have just three days at the beach, you will be so happy to be there every day.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Smile:
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I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Life:
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I've listened to music all my life. I've always felt that music tells more stories sometimes than films, with more possibilities. Every time you listen to them, songs bring different images and moods - depending on where you are in your life, you can listen to a song, and it means something different.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Life:
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Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Good:
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Look, I'm no purist - there are good superhero films, and there are bad ones.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Me:
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I've never done a period piece or a comedy, and that could be something truly different for me.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about City:
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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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Care:
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Millions of Mexicans leave their kids in order to take care of other kids. That's a very painful thing.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Art:
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Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression, that's art.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Magic:
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Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Myself:
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My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Experience:
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My duty is to make probable the improbable. If I tell you how I did it, I will ruin your experience.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Success:
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My father had a difficult relationship with success, maybe because he never obtained it. But he was very wise about it because he observed how you can become rotten fruit once you get power.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Home:
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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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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Responsibility:
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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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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Mom:
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My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Culture:
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Now that we're poisoned with the culture of superheroes, I think it's important to laugh about it.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Time:
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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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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Work:
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On a transcendental level, a film is not going to be better or worse because there's a prize behind it. The work will be what it is, with or without a prize.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Pain:
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People talk about the pain of defeat, but I think defeat has a lot of value. I think the wound of victory can be even more damaging than defeat. Very few people really know how to win.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Best:
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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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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Problems:
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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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Beautiful:
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'Russian Ark,' I adore - I almost cried at the end of that film, it's so beautiful.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Work:
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That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Life:
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Sad music, I always thought, is more beautiful than other music. But at the same time, I am in my personal life a very happy guy. I have a sense of humor. I am not the kind of depressed guy all the time brooding. No. I am very enthusiastic about things.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Love:
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The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to express the immediacy of what they were being affected by - and I love that. That is why I do what I do. I need to express myself.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Money:
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The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Beginning:
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The demographic complexity of this country should be reflected not only at the end of the chain, but since the beginning, in order that more of these people can be excited and integrated.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Emotions:
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The emotions of the actors are better when they understand the chronological factors that are adding to the story.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Car:
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The creative process is mysterious, a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Middle:
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The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Architecture:
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The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Problem:
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The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literature.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Food:
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The way America sees Mexico, if they have any sense of it, is like Taco Bell. Our countries are neighbors, and the only hard food to get in America is true Mexican. It's impossible to find, even in L.A. Why is that?
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Way:
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The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Fear:
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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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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Time:
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Time is what allows stories to spread into people's consciousness.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Speak:
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To become a celebrity, a name - and I've actually met some that speak of themselves in the third person - it's scary. They become an object, not a human, complex, questioning thing where the cells are always changing.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Time:
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Time starts out as a notion. But after you turn fifty, time is not a notion anymore but a fact that you start feeling clearly, and in a way, it pushes you to become present in the present.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Language:
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To direct actors is difficult. To direct actors in another language is more difficult, but directing non-actors in another language is one of the craziest things that I have done and one of the most rewarding experiences I have had.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about War:
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To make a film is easy, to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Yourself:
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To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Decisions:
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To shoot a conventional film means that you are always covering yourself. You are putting nets and, in a way, letting bad decisions take over.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Knowledge:
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Too much knowledge and analysis can be paralysis.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Stupidity:
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To think that we can understand everything is such stupidity because our senses are so limited. We are so limited that to feel that we can understand the creation scientifically is a little bit naive. It's very childish.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Compassion:
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Two words guided the making of 'Babel' for me: 'dignity' and 'compassion.' These things are normally forgotten in the making of a lot of films. Normally there is not dignity because the poor and dispossessed in a place like Morocco are portrayed as mere victims, or the Japanese are portrayed as cartoon figures with no humanity.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Loser:
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Trump doesn't know it yet, but he will become one of the guys that he hates very soon. Soon he will be a loser.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Life:
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We are the only alive creatures that are mortals, the animals are immortal, which is why they live stupidly. We are the only creatures that know that we will die, but that is a gift. It's important because we know we have to take advantage and squeeze life and understand why we're here in the first place.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Winter:
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Very little is known about Hugh Glass as a real guy that existed 200 years ago, except that he was attacked by a bear, betrayed and left for dead, and has to survive in the winter. I said, 'What really drives a human to survive those conditions?'
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Done:
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Ultimately, with every film I'd done before, there was a reference. They have their own uniqueness, but there was always a precedent.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Water:
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We have always existed in different forms - carbon, oxygen, water, heat. Maybe Heaven is this brief period when the elements realize they're alive.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Violence:
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We try to show that violence has a consequence - when you create violence, it turns against you.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Life:
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We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Time:
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We want to conquer the world and have 1,000 likes, 1 million likes, but at the same time, we are depressed. We are lonely, but we have 10,000 followers. We are all bipolar.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Time:
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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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Soul:
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When I have been exposed to so many films that are so bad, my soul gets crushed. I just feel intoxicated.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Growing Up:
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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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Life:
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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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Sad:
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When I talk about sad things, I talk about sad things.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Strong:
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When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films had a lot of things to say that weren't getting expressed in the films I was used to seeing.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Love:
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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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Appreciate:
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When things cost so much, you appreciate it much more.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Myself:
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When I'm working, I'm insufferable because I get stuck with myself, and suddenly I become obsessive, thinking about how to make something better.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Love:
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When we are looking for validation, that will never satisfy us. When we are looking for affection, for love, a little bit of that will be enough to be complete.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Mistakes:
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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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Language:
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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.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Strength:
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When you have a fresh point of view that comes from the right side of the heart, it's just so valuable. You can take it or not take it, but just that perspective can give you a lot of strength or make you reflect on a lot of things.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Time:
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When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Time:
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When you have something that is bothering you, and then you articulate, take the time to really express it and see it clearly, to recognize. To acknowledge that is already a liberating energy.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Funny:
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When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny, it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Funny:
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When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there's nothing funny about it.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu about Others:
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While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film.
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