282 Quotes by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.

'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.

I think we are all connected in this world.

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

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.

I think when you turn 50 you get a little melancholic in a way.

There was so much fear after 9/11, and that fear caused people to make the wrong decisions.

I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.

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.