Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together through invisible but existing threads. A kind of literature which talks about a lively, ever-changing world of unity, of which we are a small, but not insignificant part.

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.

The irony is that the more specific you are in the portrayal of character, the more like other people you are. In the same way, the more you think about how alone you are in this life, you realise how much a brother and sister everyone else is.

The world is not such a large place, and we have more in common with one another than we might think.

In this world, and all the things we have going on, we're all human beings.

I always like things that shrink the world for me, that make me feel a strange connection, not just to the person that I'm listening to but to the world.

I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.

In this changing, complex and exciting world with exploding expectations, we need to find some common ground. We need people and ideas to turn to bind us, and Mahatma Gandhi with his message of oneness for mankind is one of them.

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.

There’s a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it.

I'm no different than you.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.