Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

Everything I do is somehow rooted in humanity. It's always about people; it's always about ego. It's always about desperation. It's quite existential. You know, 'Am I leading a good life?' That might be because I'm an atheist, and I think this is all we've got, so you better be nice. And have fun.

What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words the human condition.

There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

How can we live and die and never know the difference?

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation

We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?

I've always found life quite difficult to explain to people or to myself.

-Why does a man live? -In order to think about it.

We're just animals, creatures smart enough and unlucky enough to have figured out we're alive, and we're going to die without ever knowing any purpose. We can pretend all we want and we can wish all we want, but that basic existential fact remains—we can't know.

All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.

I finally did not understand if we are living to survive or we are living to die!

I really believe that 'Saw' makes us stop and think and question our motives and what we're doing here on Earth.

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

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

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.