Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Life Quotations

For me, the most important thing that I have to accomplish is to be a good father. That's the most difficult challenge of my life. That's the most important thing for me, more than films.

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood.

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

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

We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity.

All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.

I think I want to talk about life from the point of view of death.

I define myself from a vision, from a point of view of life.

'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.

I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.

I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.

I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party.

We are the only alive creatures that are mortals; the animals are immortal, which is why they live stupidly. We are the only creatures that know that we will die, but that is a gift. It's important because we know we have to take advantage and squeeze life and understand why we're here in the first place.

When I was about to turn 50, I went into a kind of personal revision and observed my own priorities and what led those priorities in my life. And many things that, in a way, were profound.

You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life.

I'm an intense person. My own vision of life has always been heavy.