Walberto Alejandro Quotes

Alejandro opened his mouth "Marry Me!"
"If she says Yes shoot him." Bern said to Leon, his face completely serious. "She'll thank us later."
Bugg stirred in his seat. "Catalina! Do not marry this dickfucker! There are better birds in the sea!" He turned to my mom and said "Pardon my French. ~ Ilona Andrews

Words don't heal. Art heals! ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I had a big problem working with stars, because they are too expensive and have too many demands. Their names help you raise the money to make the movie, but then they demand close-ups. They change things. You end up doing things at their service instead of servicing the film. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I, simply, am God. It makes everything so much easier. ~ Alejandro C. Estrada

Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but Nutella and shoes seem to run a close second. ~ David Alejandro Fearnhead

I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky and among current filmmakers von Trier, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

What is an artistic picture? An artistic picture is very simple. The creator is not the producer. The creator is not the star. The creator is the director, the person who realizes the picture, like a poet, like an artist. The creator of the picture is free to do whatever he wants, how he wants to do it. That is an artistic picture. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

I say, 'If somebody steals something of yours, then it's good; he loves what you do.' ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

We know so little about Socrates but somehow we still remember he existed; more amazing yet, is how the meaning of ethics has completely escaped us. ~ Alejandro C. Estrada

A NeXTmodernist author is satisfied as long as the consumer purchases their book. ~ Alejandro Saint-Barthélemy

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

He is never far, and every time I glance in his direction, I see huge brown eyes lingering on me, bright with feeling. He is aware of me in a way Alejandro never was, and it gives me a little thrill each time I notice him noticing me. ~ Rae Carson

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

I really didn't want to become branded as 'that multistructural guy.' ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.' And for three years, I was there working with him being a surrealist. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think Twitter is the literature of the 21st century. I think it's an incredible art because when you make a book, you don't know who reads it. But every line, I write a million people, they read it, and then they insult me, they love me, they discuss, they give an opinion instantly, immediately. They are completely in communication, immediately. That is a real art. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

We need to see ourselves projected in other members of our species to, in turn, understand ourselves. Cinema, is that mirror. It is a bridge between the others and us. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Perhaps he has always limited himself to following images: he hasn't made decisions, hasn't won or lost, he has just let himself be drawn in by certain images, and he followed them, without fear or courage, until he got close to them or shut them out. ~ Alejandro Zambra

One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

IF THE PONTIFF BELIEVES HIMSELF TO BE G-D, SO BE IT, BUT JUST AS I HAVE GIVEN I SHALL TAKETH AWAY. FOR IT WAS I, WHO BROUGHT MY PEOPLE UP AND OUT OF EGYPT, AND BY MY OWN HAND , I SHALL DELIVER THEM BACK AND LET THEM BRING THEMSELVES UP AND OUT FROM HELL ~ Alejandro C. Estrada

My second wife, the mother of one of my sons, died of murder. I was not with her, but I could have saved her. I think. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro, meet Bob," Rose said, and he quickly looked around the room, only to confirm that nobody was there.

"Bob? Who is Bob?"

"Bob is my cat," she said, that quicksilver grin again crossing her face and then vanishing. "The basilisks got him just after I rescued Ninja."

"The basilisk attacked your cat after you rescued a ninja?" he repeated slowly, realizing he'd been right. There was no way a woman this beautiful could have a personality to match her looks.

She was nuts. ~ Alyssa Day

The day you were born was the happiest day of my life, but I was so nervous that I don't know if happiness is really the best word to describe what I felt. I think it is my obligation to tell you, in spite of the absolute love I have always felt for you, in spite of how much you have brightened my life, and I assume your mother's as well - I haven't seen her in around ten years now, but I'm sure that for her as well you have been a constant source of happiness - in spite of all that, I have to tell you that during the eighteen years you've now been alive, I've never stopped wondering what my life would have been like if you had never been born.

It's an overwhelming thought, an exit that leads to the darkest of nights, to the most complete blackness, but also to shadow and sometimes, slowly, toward something like a clearing in the woods. These fantasies are normal, but it's not so common for parents to confess them. For example, over the years I have thought thousands of times that if you hadn't been born I would have needed less money, or could have disappeared for weeks on end without worrying about anyone. I could have prolonged my youth for several more years. I could have even killed myself. I mean, the first consequence of your birth was that from then on, I could never kill myself. ~ Alejandro Zambra

Last night I walked for hours. It was as if I wanted to get lost down some unknown street. To get absolutely and happily lost. But there are moments when we can't, when we don't know how to lose our way. Even if we always go in the wrong direction. Even if we lose all our points of reference. Even if it begins to grow late and we feel the weight of morning as we advance. There are times when no matter how we try to find out what we don't know, we can't lose our way. And perhaps we long for the time when we could be lost. The time when all the streets were new. ~ Alejandro Zambra

We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

I remember, the first time I saw a [Andrei] Tarkovsky film, I was shocked by it. I didn't know what to do. I was fascinated, because suddenly I realized that film could have so many more layers to it than what I had imagined before. Then others, like Kurosawa and Fellini, were like a new discovery for me, another country. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

One day I was sitting in my own pain, and suddenly all the pain and troubles of the world came to me. I received all the pain of the world, all through my body. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Although often with good intentions, our parents and teachers attribute negative definitions to us, which last for many years and prevent us from developing ourselves with pleasure. In psychomagic, we call these definitions "labels" because they stick to the self. So that the consultant can free herself from them, I advise:
▶ The consultant writes on adhesive labels as many definitions as they gave her, for example: "You have no ear for music," "You don't know how to use your hands," "You're a freeloader, liar, thief," "You're egotistical, weak, dumb, fat, skinny, vain, ungrateful," and so on. The consultant glues these labels to every part of the body - many of them to the face - and goes out in public that way for as many hours as possible. When the consultant returns home, she should remove the labels, roll them into a ball, take the ball to the city dump, and throw it on top of the garbage pile, having beforehand caressed her body with hands soaked in pleasant perfume. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

There was so much fear after 9/11, and that fear caused people to make the wrong decisions. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Who cares about my opinions? ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Look, I'm no purist - there are good superhero films, and there are bad ones. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

I liked Lady Gaga's meat dress. It was funny. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

A person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making 'El Topo,' I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

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