Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“Now is a time where there are so many social networks, such need for validation... you don't have to be a star or a politician to want to have likes or dislikes. Now there is a disease of po...”

“You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything.”

“I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.”

“I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.”

“When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective.”

“I have been very lucky to have final cut in all my films; everything that is wrong in them is my fault.”

“Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.”

“I think there's nothing wrong with being fixated on superheroes when you are 7 years old, but I think there's a disease in not growing up.”

“Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.”

“When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but...”

“For me, the most important thing that I have to accomplish is to be a good father. That's the most difficult challenge of my life. That's the most important thing for me, more than films.”

“To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.”

“When there's a good script, everybody circles.”

“The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.”

“I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I'm able to accomplish.”

“That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.”

“Very little is known about Hugh Glass as a real guy that existed 200 years ago, except that he was attacked by a bear, betrayed and left for dead, and has to survive in the winter. I said, '...”

“'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.”

“My duty is to make probable the improbable. If I tell you how I did it, I will ruin your experience.”

“When I'm working, I'm insufferable because I get stuck with myself, and suddenly I become obsessive, thinking about how to make something better.”