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'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.