282 Quotes by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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.

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.

If the audience, in minute 50, is thinking about the way a movie is shot, there's a problem. I want it to permeate emotionally.

'Amores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident.

Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.

I think I want to talk about life from the point of view of death.

Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.

My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations.