Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

I always see what I did wrong, what I could do better.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at arm's length, to make an assessment of yourself. So whom do I rely on? I rely on myself.

For our improvement we need a mirror.

I learned that it's important to treat yourself like a work in progress, to think about how you can improve, to listen to feedback.

I'm the greatest critic of my work.

I question everything I do.

It is always good to self-analyse and be self-critical. That is how I've got through so far and improved.

I know when I'm good and when there are a few things I need to iron out.

There's always things that I can improve on.

It's important to have people who will question you occasionally.

When I come home, I always look in the mirror and I want to see where I could do better, where I can improve.

Something good happens or something bad, I think, 'What can I do better? What didn't I do this year?'

You have to be able to analyze yourself and critique yourself from every which way.

You got to want to evolve. It's something you can practice on but it just came to me. I wasn't really sitting there like, 'What can I do to get better?' It just came to me, talking to my people and my crew. They just tell me what my strongest and weakest points are at.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.