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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Biography

Alejandro González Iñárritu (American Spanish: [aleˈxandɾo gonˈsales iˈɲaritu]; credited since 2014 as Alejandro G. Iñárritu; born August 15, 1963) is a Mexican film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good exercise, because I learned to tell little stories.

Exercise, Stories, Volkswagen, Writing

There's nothing better than being in a film that translates to audiences and makes people think and feel good and walk away with great revelations in their own life of some kind. But when the process and the experience and the fun of that matches, it's a good feeling.

Audiences, Fun, Good, People, Process, Thinking

Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.

Condom, Enjoy, Fear, Oscars, Things

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

Academic, Careers, Cinema, Life, Normal

Actually, when I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was 16 and 18. One of them crossed through the Mississippi and Baton Rouge and Mobile, Alabama, and another went all the way to Europe. On the last trip, I stayed in Europe for one year with $1,000, working everywhere I could, doing everything. Those years shaped me a lot and taught me the value of exploring different things.

Crossed, Growing, Growing Up, Thinking, Year, Years

I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it.

Frivolous, Handle, Overreact, Violence

When you get to the holidays, if you think that the holidays will be forever, you just take it for granted. But, if you know that you have just three days at the beach, you will be so happy to be there, every day.

Beach, Days, Happy, Holiday, Holidays, Thinking

I was aware of the possible biases you could get as a commercial director, like being too concerned about the technical aspects of the form rather than anything of substance. If you keep working in commercials, you can get trapped in a very superficial way of thinking. I always used commercials as an exercise for filmmaking, like going to the gym.

Aware, Biases, Directors, Exercise, Thinking

I just wanted to show the migrants as complex humans with flaws and weakness, with good and bad things, and show that they're parents and family men. I wanted to show them with everything, as they are.

Complex, Humans, Men, Parent, Things, Weakness

I think the arts should get big support, but my country has a lot of needs more important than film. Medication, education, food. . . The poverty is overwhelming. There are simply more important things to be attended to.

Art, Big, Country, Overwhelming, Support, Thinking

Every time that I'm challenged with a film I think that I haven't learned anything, that every film is different and that every thing that I have learned is useless in this new adventure.

Adventure, Different, Thinking, Time

In the creative process, my ego has always been a huge tyrant. . . a dictator and kind of rude and very misleading, because sometimes when I'm doing something, I say, "This is great! This is fantastic! Very genius!" And 20 minutes later, I feel like a dead jellyfish. "You are a stupid a**hole. This is a piece of sh*t. Nobody will care about it. "

Creative, Ego, Jellyfish, Process, Stupid, Tyrants

Mexico City is very different now than when I grew up, but I was in the streets all the time - though I was born to a middle-class neighborhood where there weren't a lot of gangs and things. I was always comfortable.

Cities, City, Class, Comfortable, Different, Neighborhood

Of course, there's always one theater that shows some kind of European film. Now, fortunately, you have DVDs, so it's possible to get anything you want within a few hours. In those days, it was virtually impossible to get Italian films, or German films, or whatever. So I grew up with very standard, mainstream films.

Days, Dvds, Hours, Italian, Possible, Want

The way America sees Mexico, if they have any sense of it, is like Taco Bell. Our countries are neighbors, and the only hard food to get in America is true Mexican. It's impossible to find, even in L. A. Why is that?

America, Country, Mexican, Sees, Way

You hear about bombings in other countries, or numbers like "10,000 people died" - you hear that number and you think, "Well, I saw that yesterday in a film, and that didn't look so bad. " Younger viewers, in particular, lose perspective on reality.

Country, Hear, Reality, Think, Thinking, Younger

I think movies in general should have more respect for the audience than they do. Too many films are afraid to confuse people, so all the information is given to them right away, and there's nothing left for the film to do. It ruins many stories, because everything becomes obvious and predictable. I want my films to engage people more and make them more actively involved in the story.

Becomes, Movies In General, Nothing, Should Have, Stories, Thinking

I hate superficial violence. It's shallow and stupid, and the impact on the audience is really bad.

Hate, Impact, Shallow, Stupid, Violence

I respect BMW for not interfering in these projects. They're just trying to support short films with their brand, which I think is great.

Bmw, Projects, Support, Thinking

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party.

Enjoyable, Know, Knowing, Life Is, Party

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