“Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take ...” — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quote

Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.

When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films had a lot of things to say that weren't getting expressed in the films I was used to seeing.

I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time, advertising gives you a lot of vices, for example, an obsession for a superficial look, but at the same time, it gives you the capacity to synthesize the story - tell a story in one minute.

Innocence can be more powerful than experience.

I know fans may not like it, but at the same time, I love to see a guy say, 'you know what, I don't want to be here, and I'm going to force them to trade me.'

I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated.

I hope I give girls an opportunity to realize that they can swim and go to school at the same time. It's not to be given up once they get out of high school. They can continue doing it for the rest of their lives.

I always think about music horizontally and vertically at the same time.

I don't have an all-embracing vision which people have to buy. I'm simply trying to work with the struggles we all deal with every day while we're trying to live out our personal destinies and make a living at the same time.