Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

I define myself from a vision, from a point of view of life.

I'm an intense person. My own vision of life has always been heavy.

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

Now that we're poisoned with the culture of superheroes, I think it's important to laugh about it.

To think that we can understand everything is such stupidity because our senses are so limited. We are so limited that to feel that we can understand the creation scientifically is a little bit naive. It's very childish.

It's different if you're self-fed by a culture such as the U.S. where it's so rich, you don't have to look outside. Everything's already there. But when you grow up in the desert, you have to be looking all over for inspiration.

I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.

I've never done a period piece or a comedy, and that could be something truly different for me.

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.

I always have considered Michael Keaton to be a phenomenal actor because he navigates drama and comedy.

When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there's nothing funny about it.