Quotes from Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

To think that we can understand everything is such stupidity because our senses are so limited. We are so limited that to feel that we can understand the creation scientifically is a little bit naive. It's very childish.

If I had been at an assembly line for films, I don't know if I would be the best driver. I think I would have crashed the car.

The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.

I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time, advertising gives you a lot of vices, for example, an obsession for a superficial look, but at the same time, it gives you the capacity to synthesize the story - tell a story in one minute.

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

When you have a fresh point of view that comes from the right side of the heart, it's just so valuable. You can take it or not take it, but just that perspective can give you a lot of strength or make you reflect on a lot of things.

As a Third World citizen, I always feel that I need to express my point of view. Sometimes the points of view of Third World countries are never expressed. We don't have that possibility, sometimes, to spread what we feel and how we see things.

I leave the story room to grow into what the movie is driving me to do.

It's very healthy to be aware of your ego.

I learned there are ways to approach life. You can never change the events, but you can change the way you approach them.

I do think that the emotional weight of 'Biutiful' has blinded some viewers to the beauty and complexity of the film.

'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.

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.

I'm an intense person. My own vision of life has always been heavy.

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

I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you.

I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you. The experience was so good.

I never deny a true experience in one shot.