Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!

I drink to forget I drink.

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That's the paradox of Marilyn Manson.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

The worse I do the more popular I get.

A double bind is far worse than a straightforward damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't dilemma. It requires you to obey two mutually exclusive commands: Anything you do to fulfill one violates the other.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself.

Help means ruin and saving means slaying.

For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.

Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.

Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.

Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.

I never thought of that before! It's my opinion that you never think at all.

My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.

Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

Luce: But I thought you said I should stay away from the hard cases. Arriane: Rule number two — don't listen to me!

I hate taking myself seriously. It drives me crazy!

I'm not disappointed - just disappointed.

I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]