Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

'Azores Period' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

'Beautiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

If I had been at an assembly line for films, I don't know if I would be the best driver. I think I would have crashed the car.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I have a notebook, and I know what decisions will be made in pre-production. Everything is pre-determined in the pre-production period. I visually design the whole thing, and I know when things will happen.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I like the possibility of failure. I don't want to be in a comfortable zone.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I see only one requirement you have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there's no music. Without rhythm, there's no cinema. Without rhythm, there's no architecture.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think that the best things come from thought, without thinking. I think that's the smartest use of the intelligence that we all have.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu