I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.
From Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I think musically.
Films like 'Babel' can transcend the one point-of-view formula that has reigned for so long.
While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film.
Two words guided the making of 'Babel' for me: 'dignity' and 'compassion.' These things are normally forgotten in the making of a lot of films. Normally there is not dignity because the poor and dispossessed in a place like Morocco are portrayed as mere victims, or the Japanese are portrayed as cartoon figures with no humanity.
When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but the market has been reduced, unfortunately, and you know that when you're making a foreign language film, you're making a choice.
I have always considered myself to be spiritual in a way that has less to do with religion and more with an awareness that you have, and the consciousness you have of being alive and the consciousness that you will be dead.
I have always been very wary of what would happen when I die. I feel I would die every day, and that thought sometimes made me more aware that I am alive.
When there's a good script, everybody circles.
I like the possibility of failure. I don't want to be in a comfortable zone.
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