When you are shooting in a conventional way, you put nets around yourself. It's very hard to fall and hit the ground. You can always manipulate things to make it not embarrassing. If the scene is a little bit bad, you can polish it or even take it out. You can hide your mistakes.
From Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.
Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.
If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.
It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.
I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.
'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.
You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life.
I have been very lucky to have final cut in all my films; everything that is wrong in them is my fault.
Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Mexican cinema about little rural towns, or set a hundred years ago.
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