Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

I'm someone who loves to play. I make films so I can have fun with the characters.

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

I like writing and directing. I enjoy telling stories, and I think it's born in a comedian to end up directing.

My first love was always direction; I had worked hard as a film-maker but not as an actor.

I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft.

To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.

Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through.

When I'm shooting films, I write and play music when I come home.

When I was younger I didn't really know what a director did: I knew I loved movies and I figured the actors made it up! And then when you get to 12 years old you start thinking, What does a director do? It was really an organic beginning: this looks like something I want to do, I can't believe people get paid to do it!

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work.

Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

I'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning.

I love writing, and I love postproduction. That's great, because you start to reassemble the film, and you sit there, and you start to really put the film together, finally. The shooting of it is the most stressful part of the process.

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.

For me, to be perfectly honest, the part of my brain that was stimulated by directing was much more exciting than a typical day of acting.

I'll always have my skate life, but I absolutely like the fun of making movies.

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.