Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

I really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines.

Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.

Making a movie is difficult enough to sort of have a premeditated length that you're going for. I don't know a single filmmaker on the planet who does that.

I film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always 'let it keep rolling.'

Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.

We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.

Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing, because you kind of get to stay in control of it all the way through. You don't relinquish the piece to the actors like you have to in theater; you stay in control through the very end.

My team or I didn't enjoy any administrative authority in the creative role play for the Telugu version of 'Queen.'

I'm very heavily involved in the editorial post-production process, and the camera - it's just such a big part of my storytelling language. I like creating the tension; I like creating the emotion through the movement of my camera, or the lack of movement through my camera, depending on what fits the scene best.

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

When you're a film-maker, sometimes you have to be a slave to continuity.

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want.

The idea of directing my own movie is definitely more challenging than choreography.

In the Indian system of filmmaking, you don't plan well in advance, stick to a storyboard, or deliver only the scripted lines.

The nice thing about the theatre is you can always change it. With a movie, once it's there, you're stuck with it.

I've picked up so much about the technical aspects of filmmaking and television.

I don't remember doing more than one take for a film.

Moviemaking is a dirty, tiring affair. The joy comes from the possibility to be free on set and really let loose.

With digital editing, I now can make many, many versions of a scene.

The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea, and I can pretty much execute it.

I like to produce my own movies.

At the end of the day on 'Pete's Dragon,' if we didn't nail something, we could come back and pick it up later. I always knew there was a safety net built in that Disney would not let the movie fail. But in this case, with 'A Ghost Story,' it was all on the line.

When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.

Spike Lee is a master of tone, so basically, if he wants to do something, he should do it, and Imma listen.