Mexican - Director | August 15, 1963 -
My father had a difficult relationship with success, maybe because he never obtained it. But he was very wise about it because he observed how you can become rotten fruit once you get power.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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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, 'What really drives a human to survive those conditions?'
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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.
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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.
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Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it.
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My kid will come home from seeing the latest 'Transformers' movie, and I'll ask him, 'How was it?' 'Amazing!' 'What was it about?' 'I don't know, but it was amazing!'
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I don't have a career. I have a life.
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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!'
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Ultimately, with every film I'd done before, there was a reference. They have their own uniqueness, but there was always a precedent.
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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.
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I've listened to music all my life. I've always felt that music tells more stories sometimes than films, with more possibilities. Every time you listen to them, songs bring different images and moods - depending on where you are in your life, you can listen to a song, and it means something different.
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I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.
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