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“I hate superficial violence. It's shallow and stupid, and the impact on the audience is really bad.”

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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, born on August 15, 1963, is a renowned Mexican film director known for his unique narrative style and profound thematic exploration. His works have won numerous international awards. more

“As a sensitive filmmaker, I think you have to really be careful in how you explore it. Not that you can't tell any story you want - I'm not calling for censorship or anything. But if you're going to have violence, I think it's important to deal with the consequences of that on a human level, not just to make people laugh.”

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Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it.”

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Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“My country has been wracked with violence for a long time. Just to see all the violence on the news makes you sick. It's true that violence is in our nature, but I try to explore deeply where it comes from and where it goes and what it creates. Not in a moralistic or preachy way, but just to observe the real consequences of violence in a human being or in a society.”

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Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“When people laugh and applaud as characters are killing each other, and you never see the body that's lying there, or you never see the family that suffers, then it turns into a cool thing to do, like a videogame. Then, when you watch the news and see that 15 soldiers were killed, you start to see them as just numbers, material, information, images. We lose the real weight and real value of one simple human life.”

“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“You hear about bombings in other countries, or numbers like "10,000 people died" - you hear that number and you think, "Well, I saw that yesterday in a film, and that didn't look so bad." Younger viewers, in particular, lose perspective on reality.”

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Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“The actors make the film. They're the ones that take this theoretical movie that's in your head and make it real. The success of a film is entirely on their shoulders. I admire them, because acting is such a difficult thing to do, and I personally can't understand it.”

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Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“How can [actors] learn their lines and be honest in front of 30 people and all the lights? It makes me cry sometimes. I can't understand how they can be joking with me 30 seconds before, and 40 seconds later they're giving me all this incredible feeling.”

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Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“I was the best man at my younger brother's wedding and at the time part of my roast to him was I appreciated that he's done the only profession that makes me look good, running a used car dealership.”

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Author:David Plouffe

“I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.”

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Author:David Plouffe

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