Avelino Gonzalez Quotes

I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It's an honor to represent a Latin culture. ~ Gio Gonzalez

It's hard for me to work for somebody else. I can work with someone, but not for someone. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I feel good hitting in the three-hole. I guess that's where everybody wants to be. You want the responsibility of hitting in the middle of the lineup. ~ Carlos Gonzalez

I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find their perfect home. ~ Rigoberto Gonzalez

As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it. ~ Matt Gonzalez

I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I want a formal apology from the mayor. ~ Antonio Gonzalez

I don't care if it's politics, religion or football. I believe you have to keep opening your mind. And shut your mouth sometimes! ~ Tony Gonzalez

Films like 'Babel' can transcend the one point-of-view formula that has reigned for so long. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go. ~ Jose Gonzalez

I have learned that I am a one-woman man. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts. ~ Charlie Gonzalez

Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at the same time functioning. That's why I think a smart script has two things living in the same place, and they're absolutely contradictory. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When you have a democratically elected president of Iran you don't topple him for the Shah. You don't help topple Arbenz in Guatemala. You don't do what we did in Vietnam, etc. ~ Matt Gonzalez

One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do, they've failed. They should leave someone behind every time. ~ Rigoberto Gonzalez

It can be a bit frustrating to always get the soft-rock stamp. ~ Jose Gonzalez

At an early age Jesse often said he wanted to be a soldier, and before long he was one. He was there with his military brotherhood, fighting terrorism there so we wouldn't have to fight it here. ~ Paula Gonzalez

The notion that we read the New Testament exactly as the early Christians did, without any weight of tradition coloring our interpretation, is an illusion. It is also a dangerous illusion, for it tends to absolutize our interpretation, confusing it with the Word of God. ~ Justo L. Gonzalez

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

We have always existed in different forms - carbon, oxygen, water, heat. Maybe Heaven is this brief period when the elements realize they're alive. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Of course, there's always one theater that shows some kind of European film. Now, fortunately, you have DVDs, so it's possible to get anything you want within a few hours. In those days, it was virtually impossible to get Italian films, or German films, or whatever. So I grew up with very standard, mainstream films. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'm my own biggest critic. I'm the one who has to go home and look at myself in the mirror. ~ Tony Gonzalez

In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I am not a depressive person at all. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think when you turn 50 you get a little melancholic in a way. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with parents, brothers and sisters. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

According to Augustine, the power of sin is such that it takes hold of our will, and as long as we are under its sway we cannot move our will to be rid of it. The most we can accomplish is to struggle between willing and not willing, which does little more than show the powerlessness of our will against itself. The sinner can will nothing but sin. Within that condition, there certainly are good and bad choices; but even the best choices still fall within the category of sin. ~ Justo L. Gonzalez

Adversity in life teaches you. ~ Tony Gonzalez

Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident about the material. ~ Rigoberto Gonzalez

Already renewable energy advocates are noting that the 42 miles of above-ground right-of-way between Yosemite and the city could be fitted with enough solar panels to generate at least 40 megawatts per year - a proposal the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has never seriously considered because they currently aren't required to do so. ~ Matt Gonzalez

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. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I've never used performance-enhancing drugs of any kind, and I never will. I've never met or spoken with Tony Bosch or used any substances provided by him. Anything said to the contrary is a lie. ~ Gio Gonzalez

It's harder to make real audio than special effects audio. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good exercise, because I learned to tell little stories. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable. ~ Luis Gonzalez

My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think I am most comfortable when I am on stage. I feel free, like I can be or do anything and it feels like home. ~ Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

I made friends easily, probably because I was spontaneous and average, which didn't intimidate people. It's the quiet ones kids are unsure about. ~ Julie Gonzalez

Everything anyone has ever felt
is a variation of 'sad' or 'happy' or 'angry'
everyone feels the same things over and over again ~ Mira Gonzalez

As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me. ~ Matt Gonzalez

Freddy and his brother Tesoro have not seen each other in five years, and they sit at the kitchen table in Freddy's house and have a jalapeno contest. A large bowl of big green and orange jalapeno peppers sit between the two brothers. A saltshaker and two small glasses of beer accompany this feast. When Tesoro nods his head, the two men begin to eat the raw jalapenos. The contest is to see which man can eat more peppers. It is a ritual from their father, but the two brothers tried it only once, years ago. Both quit after two peppers and laughed it off. This time, things are different. They are older and have to prove a point. Freddy eats his first one more slowly than Tesoro, who takes to bites to finish his and is now on his second. Neither says anything, though a close study of each man's face would tell you the sudden burst of jalapeno energy does not waste time in changing the eater's perception of reality. Freddy works on his second as Tesoro rips into his fourth. Freddy is already sweating from his head and is surprised to see that Tesoro's fat face has not shanged its steady, consuming look. Tesoro's long, black hair is neatly combed, and not one bead of sweat has popped out. He is the first to sip from the beer before hitting his fifth jalapeno. Freddy leans back as the table begins to sway in his damp vision. He coughs, and a sharp pain rips through his chest. Tesoro attempts to laugh at his brother, but Freddy sees it is something else. As Freddy finishes his third ~ Ray Gonzalez

Good directors don't answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

This notion that we're going to prop up foreign governments, that we're going to invade other countries for some kind of perceived benefit where we're going to install somebody who's going to be supportive of American interests or American corporate private interests needs to stop. ~ Matt Gonzalez