Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes
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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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I just wanted to show the migrants as complex humans with flaws and weakness, with good and bad things, and show that they're parents and family men. I wanted to show them with everything, as they are.
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I respect BMW for not interfering in these projects. They're just trying to support short films with their brand, which I think is great.
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I never deny a true experience in one shot.
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In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.
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Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.
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I always think politicians and even my dentist have more egos than actors.
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I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it.
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You hear about bombings in other countries, or numbers like "10,000 people died" - you hear that number and you think, "Well, I saw that yesterday in a film, and that didn't look so bad." Younger viewers, in particular, lose perspective on reality.
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Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.
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All people know that they will die, but they don't actually believe it.
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For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.
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As a sensitive filmmaker, I think you have to really be careful in how you explore it. Not that you can't tell any story you want - I'm not calling for censorship or anything. But if you're going to have violence, I think it's important to deal with the consequences of that on a human level, not just to make people laugh.
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Every time that I'm challenged with a film I think that I haven't learned anything, that every film is different and that every thing that I have learned is useless in this new adventure.
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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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I understand when there's no money for the arts in the government, but it should maybe pressure private companies to support more filmmakers. These exhibition and distribution companies are huge, and there might be incentives for them to invest more in Mexican cinema.
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Of course, there's always one theater that shows some kind of European film. Now, fortunately, you have DVDs, so it's possible to get anything you want within a few hours. In those days, it was virtually impossible to get Italian films, or German films, or whatever. So I grew up with very standard, mainstream films.
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All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people.
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There's nothing better than being in a film that translates to audiences and makes people think and feel good and walk away with great revelations in their own life of some kind. But when the process and the experience and the fun of that matches, it's a good feeling.
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I hate superficial violence. It's shallow and stupid, and the impact on the audience is really 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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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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I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.
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I think every beautiful tale in the world hides the truth and reveals it little by little.
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Actually, 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. On the last trip, I stayed in Europe for one year with $1,000, working everywhere I could, doing everything. Those years shaped me a lot and taught me the value of exploring different things.
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Maybe next year the government might impose some immigration rules on the academy. Two Mexicans in a row is suspicious. [On Mexican immigrants in the US] I hope they can be treated with respect of the ones who came before and built this incredible immigrant nation.
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How can [actors] learn their lines and be honest in front of 30 people and all the lights? It makes me cry sometimes. I can't understand how they can be joking with me 30 seconds before, and 40 seconds later they're giving me all this incredible feeling.
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I don't have anything against commercials, and I really like BMWs.
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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.
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I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good exercise, because I learned to tell little stories.
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