Top 179 Quotes by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

If the audience, in minute 50, is thinking about the way a movie is shot, there's a problem. I want it to permeate emotionally.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.

There was so much fear after 9/11, and that fear caused people to make the wrong decisions.

I'm usually very critical of myself.

I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn't be defeated by the daily onslaught of problems.

Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. When you are by yourself, you have to develop a third eye.

I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.

Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.

In hotels, every time I make a reservation and they never find my name, they never can pronounce it; it's so long, and sometimes they confuse.