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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

When you shoot in a room, that's a symmetrical thing that contains you. When there's no contention, the sensation is overwhelming you. That's a challenge, to do that.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: mexican
Birth: August 15, 1963

Topics

Challenge You Room Shoot Sensation

My dad builds houses, and, for the earlier portion of my life anyway, we moved around quite a bit. It took us to some just really amazing places.

John Gourley

Life Amazing My Life Places Us Just

I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.

John Dingell

Grudges Carry Polish

I love bridge-and-tunnel characters. In some respects, they have a chip on their shoulders, but they're proud of where they're from. They're fun and colorful.

Max Joseph

Love Fun Proud Colorful Shoulders

So many poems you go into and come up empty.

Maxine Kumin

You Go Empty Up Come Poems

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

Roger McGuinn

Imagination People Down Village Beat

I don't do Jewish stuff because I don't want people to be left out. If I mention the Torah in Alabama, it's not going to go down that well. I used to do some Jewish jokes because when I started, I used to play lots of Jewish country clubs.

Rita Rudner

People Down Country Play Go Want

Guys like scars! They're like war wounds.

Michael Trucco

War Scars Like Wounds Guys

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

Miriam Makeba

Age World You Know Want Run

My dad looked like Errol Flynn, and I think my mom thought she was moving into a hacienda, but they lived on a dirt street in Tijuana, a house jammed with relatives, nobody speaking English. She didn't know a word of Spanish. She grew up well and was appalled and humiliated, terrified of anyone ethnic.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Mom Moving Think Thought House Know

When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do not waste a nanosecond wondering whether what I'm reading 'really happened.'

Julia Glass

Good Heart Myself Soul Mind Reading

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Josh Billings

Faith Safety World Living Eat Would

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

Denis Johnson

Expectations Facts Pressure You