For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.
Alejandro Gonzalez InarrituI've listened to music all my life. I've always felt that music tells more stories sometimes than films, with more possibilities. Every time you listen to them, songs bring different images and moods - depending on where you are in your life, you can listen to a song and it means something different.
Alejandro Gonzalez InarrituI saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.
Alejandro Gonzalez InarrituI think every beautiful tale in the world hides the truth and reveals it little by little.
Alejandro Gonzalez InarrituOf 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