Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Babel' is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It is a prism that allows us to see the same reality from different angles. ”

I don't have a career. I have a life. ”

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life. ”

I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous. ”

Fear of the unknown is a great creative partner. ”

I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I'm able to accomplish. ”

Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things. ”

The way America sees Mexico, if they have any sense of it, is like Taco Bell. Our countries are neighbors, and the only hard food to get in America is true Mexican. It's impossible to find, even in L.A. Why is that? ”

Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; it's the same air as Jesus breathed. I would like them to remember that connection. ”

I learned there are ways to approach life. You can never change the events, but you can change the way you approach them. ”