282 Quotes by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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.

Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want.

Good directors don't answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion.

My country has been wracked with violence for a long time. Just to see all the violence on the news makes you sick. It's true that violence is in our nature, but I try to explore deeply where it comes from and where it goes and what it creates. Not in a moralistic or preachy way, but just to observe the real consequences of violence in a human being or in a society.

I always have considered Michael Keaton to be a phenomenal actor because he navigates drama and comedy.

I hate superficial violence. It's shallow and stupid, and the impact on the audience is really bad.

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.

When people laugh and applaud as characters are killing each other, and you never see the body that's lying there, or you never see the family that suffers, then it turns into a cool thing to do, like a videogame. Then, when you watch the news and see that 15 soldiers were killed, you start to see them as just numbers, material, information, images. We lose the real weight and real value of one simple human life.

I am not a depressive person at all.