Ysobel Gonzalez Quotes

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

I remember my rookie hazing. It wasn't fun. ~ Gio Gonzalez

Leadership doesn't come from age. ~ Tony Gonzalez

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

Listen, I traipse no I run no I sprint--a fat, impotent ghoul sprung straight from the cellar of my childhood home--past the pregnant girl with five skeletal children and the nun and the synagogue with its windows stoned through and I'm headed directly for my daughter, Sylvia, at her school where she's stationed with classmates of wannabe punks and black boys with their heads shaved and every one of them, apes, gushing out their hormones as I sprint to the edge of the Earth where Sylvia studies the canon of our national literature that I'm desperately trying to forget. ~ Leland Pitts-Gonzalez

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. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

All creation has come to existence because of God and continues existing because of God. Were God's sustaining power suddenly removed from creation, it would immediately vanish into nothingness. This includes the soul, which - precisely because it is a creature and not the Creator - cannot subsist without God's sustaining power. It is not that we live because we have a soul, but rather that we have a soul and we live thanks to God's sustaining grace. ~ Justo L. Gonzalez

My mom had a huge video camera that I would always play with, and there is home video of me, like, with the camera letting her know, 'I want to do stuff like this when I grow up.' ~ Rick Gonzalez

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

What are you doing extra? That's what counts. That's when you're working hard - when you're going above and over what's expected of you" (102). - Tony Gonzalez, "The Giant Within ~ Denzel Washington

We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity. ~ 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

If you always find within, you will never feel without.

Open your mind to what you feel is true, or else someone will open your mind for you, to what they want you to know is true. ~ Arnie M. Gonzalez

There are things you do sometimes, actions that you take by obeying sudden impulses, without stopping for even a fraction of a second to think, and then you spend the rest of your life either lamenting it or thanking yourself for it. They are rare, unique, and perfect moments. ~ Irene Gonzalez Frei

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

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I don't have to be in politics. ~ Matt Gonzalez

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

If you're not critical about your history, that can be a problem because there are religious leaders, politicians and all kinds of powerful people who can take advantage of a population that isn't really thinking. ~ Jose Gonzalez

I listened to all the Misfits albums growing up and Red Hot Chili Peppers, too. ~ Jose Gonzalez

I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with. ~ Rigoberto Gonzalez

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

One of the reasons why I agreed to do commercials is that they gave me complete freedom. I just had to have the car in it and write a story around it. I wanted to do something serious set in a Latin American country, but again, it was an exercise in style for me. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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 like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative. ~ Rigoberto Gonzalez

Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing. ~ Gael Garcia Bernal

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

But when He became incarnate, and was made man, He commenced afresh the long line of human beings, and furnished us, in a brief, comprehensive manner, with salvation; so that what we had lost in Adam - namely to be according to the image and likeness of God - that we might recover in Jesus Christ ~ Michelle A. Gonzalez

I'm an intense person. My own vision of life has always been heavy. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

The way I put together images is a reactive art. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It's very healthy to be aware of your ego. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends. ~ Feist

god made our body and the devil made our face ~ Anna Gonzalez

I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that. I have to have the wheel. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu