Mexican - Director | August 15, 1963 -
When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films had a lot of things to say that weren't getting expressed in the films I was used to seeing.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Sometimes reading scripts is terrible.
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The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literature.
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I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at the same time functioning. That's why I think a smart script has two things living in the same place, and they're absolutely contradictory.
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We want to conquer the world and have 1,000 likes, 1 million likes, but at the same time, we are depressed. We are lonely, but we have 10,000 followers. We are all bipolar.
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I always have considered Michael Keaton to be a phenomenal actor because he navigates drama and comedy.
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I'm an intense person.
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Who cares about my opinions?
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When I was about to turn 50, I went into a kind of personal revision and observed my own priorities and what led those priorities in my life. And many things that, in a way, were profound.
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'21 Grams' is only one story told by three different points of view, but they are really physically connected - literally, with the heart.
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My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.
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I never deny a true experience in one shot.
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