Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

I have always believed that directing a film is like telling a story. You have to tell it well so that it is appreciated.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

Priyadarshan makes good films because he is a good writer.

I like to make films about my heroes.

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.

I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker.

I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

If you're a documenter, you're taking a video of something in the real world you want to capture. If you're a director, you're trying to create something in the real world.

I learned a lot about filmmaking from my dad. Starting when I was a child, I would listen to my dad as an actor, writer, director and producer talking about films - you know what the treatment would be in the opening, in the middle, and in the ending.

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.

I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.

Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.

I think films are bigger than structure.

My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.