Mexican - Director | August 15, 1963 -
I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'
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I am not a depressive person at all.
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The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to express the immediacy of what they were being affected by - and I love that. That is why I do what I do. I need to express myself.
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I have fantastic ideas.
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'Biutiful' is a tough film. It doesn't make concessions to the vulgarity of light entertainment. It's not the kind of film that you see every day in the Cineplex. But as an artist, it's the thing that I needed to do.
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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.
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I think musically.
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Films like 'Babel' can transcend the one point-of-view formula that has reigned for so long.
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While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film.
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Two words guided the making of 'Babel' for me: 'dignity' and 'compassion.' These things are normally forgotten in the making of a lot of films. Normally there is not dignity because the poor and dispossessed in a place like Morocco are portrayed as mere victims, or the Japanese are portrayed as cartoon figures with no humanity.
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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 the market has been reduced, unfortunately, and you know that when you're making a foreign language film, you're making a choice.
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