Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

There's something cool about traveling when you're young. There's a sense of camaraderie. You learn more about yourself.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Coming-of-age stories in high school are exciting because everything that happens during that time is very heightened.

No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

Everybody learns from traveling. I think we all do.

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

I'm dying to go to India... because the culture seems so vastly different from what I'm used to in the States. I would love to do some yoga there. And be amongst people who are so different than myself. There's so much you can learn from people who grew up in a different environment.

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.

I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they're figuring out their lives just as you are, and they're flawed.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe... first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

I think we all get into situations where we don't know how to proceed, and those are really the scariest moments that we have, but that's also what makes us 'grow up' and learn a lot about each other.

How does anybody change from the time that they're 18 till they're 25? Everything kind of changes. You see the world much differently, and you get your priorities in order a little bit more.

Every country I go to, I learn a little bit more about myself.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.