Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.
From Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.
Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.
My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations.
I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.
To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.
I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.
I have a notebook, and I know what decisions will be made in pre-production. Everything is pre-determined in the pre-production period. I visually design the whole thing, and I know when things will happen.
That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.
I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.
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