Quotes by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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.

Growing Up

Thinking

Years

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.

Laughing

People

Thinking

Fear is the condom of life. It doesn’t allow you to enjoy things.

Condom

Enjoy

Oscars

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.

Lasts

Masochism

Observing

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.

Giving

Light

People

I don’t have anything against commercials, and I really like BMWs.

Bmw

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I’m a very bad musician.

Film

Musician

Reason

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.

Exercise

Stories

Writing

I never deny a true experience in one shot.

Deny

Shots

I personally can’t handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it.

Frivolous

Handle

Violence

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Acting

Actors

America

Art

Bmw

Cities

Class

Condom

Country

Creative

Deny

Different

Directors

Discovery

Dvds

Enjoy

Exercise

Film

Frivolous

Fun

Giving

Government

Growing Up

Handle

Illusion

Italian

Kids

Lasts

Laughing

Layers

Life And Death

Light

Masochism

Mean

Mexican

Musician

Observing

Oscars

People

Perfectionist

Real

Reality

Reason

Scripts

Shots

Song

Stories

Stupid

Support

Thinking

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Quotes by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Fear is the condom of life. It doesn’t allow you to enjoy things.

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.

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.

I don’t have anything against commercials, and I really like BMWs.

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I’m a very bad musician.

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.

I never deny a true experience in one shot.

I personally can’t handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it.

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