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Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want.

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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 15
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Mexico City
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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.
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I hate superficial violence. It's shallow and stupid, and the impact on the audience is really bad.
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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.
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I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it.
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I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.
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One of the reasons why I agreed to do commercials is that they gave me complete freedom. I just had to have the car in it and write a story around it. I wanted to do something serious set in a Latin American country, but again, it was an exercise in style for me.
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All people know that they will die, but they don't actually believe it.
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All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people.
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I never deny a true experience in one shot.
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Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.
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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.
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Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.
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I was a street kid, basically. But really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and I've always found my way through it in different ways.
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In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.
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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.
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I don't have anything against commercials, and I really like BMWs.
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How can [actors] learn their lines and be honest in front of 30 people and all the lights? It makes me cry sometimes. I can't understand how they can be joking with me 30 seconds before, and 40 seconds later they're giving me all this incredible feeling.
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I understand when there's no money for the arts in the government, but it should maybe pressure private companies to support more filmmakers. These exhibition and distribution companies are huge, and there might be incentives for them to invest more in Mexican cinema.
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As a sensitive filmmaker, I think you have to really be careful in how you explore it. Not that you can't tell any story you want - I'm not calling for censorship or anything. But if you're going to have violence, I think it's important to deal with the consequences of that on a human level, not just to make people laugh.
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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.
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