Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We have always existed in different forms - carbon, oxygen, water, heat. Maybe Heaven is this brief period when the elements realize they're alive.

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

Time starts out as a notion. But after you turn fifty, time is not a notion anymore but a fact that you start feeling clearly, and in a way, it pushes you to become present in the present.

Sad music, I always thought, is more beautiful than other music. But at the same time, I am in my personal life a very happy guy. I have a sense of humor. I am not the kind of depressed guy all the time brooding. No. I am very enthusiastic about things.

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

Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.

It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.

Now is a time where there are so many social networks, such need for validation... you don't have to be a star or a politician to want to have likes or dislikes. Now there is a disease of popularity in the whole society.

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.

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.

To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.