Top 179 Quotes by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

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

I'm usually very critical of myself.

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

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.

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

Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.

I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that. I have to have the wheel.

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.