Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu People Quotations

Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood.

I know how to work with people. I've worked with the same people for 10 years. I'm not that kind of auteur. I hear ideas.

I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.

People talk about the pain of defeat, but I think defeat has a lot of value. I think the wound of victory can be even more damaging than defeat. Very few people really know how to win.

In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.

How can [actors] learn their lines and be honest in front of 30 people and all the lights? It makes me cry sometimes. I can't understand how they can be joking with me 30 seconds before, and 40 seconds later they're giving me all this incredible feeling.

All people know that they will die, but they don't actually believe it.

All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people.

There's nothing better than being in a film that translates to audiences and makes people think and feel good and walk away with great revelations in their own life of some kind. But when the process and the experience and the fun of that matches, it's a good feeling.

As a sensitive filmmaker, I think you have to really be careful in how you explore it. Not that you can't tell any story you want - I'm not calling for censorship or anything. But if you're going to have violence, I think it's important to deal with the consequences of that on a human level, not just to make people laugh.

When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there's nothing funny about it.

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