Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.

My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.

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

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.