282 Quotes by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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.

When I have been exposed to so many films that are so bad, my soul gets crushed. I just feel intoxicated.

We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity.

It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world is hate.

Antonio Sanchez is from Mexico City. I met him at a Pat Metheny concert. He did a solo, and I thought, 'This is an octopus man!'

Millions of Mexicans leave their kids in order to take care of other kids. That's a very painful thing.

Now that we're poisoned with the culture of superheroes, I think it's important to laugh about it.

It's harder to make real audio than special effects audio.

I have never directed anything for the stage. I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable without the possibility to control things, to be so exposed.