Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.”

“Too much knowledge and analysis can be paralysis.”

“Writing is not an unknown territory for me.”

“You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they focus on. So they work for corporate interest instead of artistic expression.”