Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Film Quotations

I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky and among current filmmakers von Trier, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai.

When I have been exposed to so many films that are so bad, my soul gets crushed. I just feel intoxicated.

You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they focus on. So they work for corporate interest instead of artistic expression.

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

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.

All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people.

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.

Nowadays, a critic has to watch 700, 800 films a year, and I know through experience, being a juror in prestigious film festivals where supposedly the best films are arriving, from twenty films maybe you see two that are good, one that is so-so, and one that is extraordinary. And the other sixteen are terrible.

I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films.

I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary.

Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment.

Films like 'Babel' can transcend the one point-of-view formula that has reigned for so long.

You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything.

The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial.