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While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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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.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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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.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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I have learned that I am a one-woman man.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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I really didn't want to become branded as 'that multistructural guy.'

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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Time is what allows stories to spread into people's consciousness.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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On a transcendental level, a film is not going to be better or worse because there's a prize behind it. The work will be what it is, with or without a prize.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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People talk about the pain of defeat, but I think defeat has a lot of value. I think the wound of victory can be even more damaging than defeat. Very few people really know how to win.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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Biography

Nationality: Mexican

Type: Director

Born: August 15th, 1963

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