Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.

Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children. In this way, they, like Julia, guide me to a new level of self-awareness and everyone benefits.

I think I've been an incredible example to my kids of what not to do.

I make a lot of mistakes, too, and I'm constantly re-evaluating how I'm doing things and trying to be better every day, whether it's as a mom or taking care of myself.

My mom has obviously had a powerful influence on my life, and her voice can describe certain things that I couldn't see in myself.

Respect your kids. They are their own people. I think sometimes we expect kids to be perfect when we're not perfect.

I am pretty sick with myself! It seemed a pretty good idea at the time. Around the time I turned 30, I started to feel very creative, more creative than I had been before which is good and I like that.

Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

I love being a mom. And I think what I love the most is the way it makes me think about what's important and what's not important. What to fight for and what to just be cool with. What it is that I'm teaching through example and what it is that I was taught that I don't want to teach.

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

I learned from my past.

I was so determined not to pass on to my children what I perceived to be the faults of my upbringing.

I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me.

I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through.

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.

I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person.

My whole life, I've wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

I've made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too.

As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.