Top 100 Quotes About Gonzalez

#1. I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#2. Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Directing non-actors in a language that you yourself don't understand is the craziest thing you can possibly think of.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#3. I think I want to talk about life from the point of view of death.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#4. If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

Luis Gonzalez

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

Tony Gonzalez

#6. Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.

Matt Gonzalez

#7. I want a formal apology from the mayor.

Antonio Gonzalez

#8. I love entertaining Korean people with traditional songs from Ecuador . It has been an exceptional, new experience for me to perform in Korea and I enjoyed so much.

Jose Gonzalez

#9. 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

#10. I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time, advertising gives you a lot of vices, for example, an obsession for a superficial look, but at the same time, it gives you the capacity to synthesize the story - tell a story in one minute.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#11. Innocence can be more powerful than experience.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#12. With performing live, you obviously don't get the luxury of another take, but for me, it is all the same.

Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

#13. I would watch Gonzalez play and he mesmerized you. It would be like looking into the flame of a fire. You know you couldn't take your eyes off him because you never knew what he would do next.

Jimmy Connors

#14. I'm telling the same story in every film.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#15. I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.

Rigoberto Gonzalez

#16. There is no such thing as children's literature.

N. V. M. Gonzalez

#17. Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#18. We always get back to old soul singers like Nina Simone, and how her recordings sound. Also new music like Tobacco, or people that use a mixture of analog and electronic music.

Jose Gonzalez

#19. I remember my rookie hazing. It wasn't fun.

Gio Gonzalez

#20. I know how to work with people. I've worked with the same people for 10 years. I'm not that kind of auteur. I hear ideas.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#21. The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to express the immediacy of what they were being affected by - and I love that. That is why I do what I do. I need to express myself.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#22. Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love. I was afraid. I was hopeful. I had an idea and I had a good purpose and that's why I made works of art.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

#23. I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#24. I want to be a contemporary artist and at the same time a romantic!

Luis Gonzalez

#25. When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#26. The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world.

Luis Gonzalez

#27. I'm very curious, I guess, as a human being.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#28. Something I tell my students is to read once; then if you still have problems with it, read it a second time. If you still have problems, get drunk and read it a third time ... and you might get something out of it.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

#29. I pay editors. I never ask friends or colleagues to work for free.

Rigoberto Gonzalez

#30. 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

#31. I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#32. I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.

Charlie Gonzalez

#33. Each of us exists as a castaway in his circumstances, and it is there, whether he wishes or not, that man must struggle to remain afloat.

Pedro Blas Gonzalez

#34. I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.

Matt Gonzalez

#35. When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages.

Matt Gonzalez

#36. Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.

Manuel Gonzalez Flores

#37. I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#38. I don't like second place; I'm out there trying to win everything.

Tony Gonzalez

#39. Face, to me, is a metaphor of sadness. And I want to share this sadness. I'm not really interested whether it's an Indian face or not - that's not as important for me. But it's still important to establish the relationships in order to bring about a consciousness of our fragility.

Luis Gonzalez

#40. Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#41. I will play the characters with last names like Sanchez and Gonzalez until the day I die, but I also want to play the 'Michelle Smiths.'

Gina Rodriguez

#42. I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes.

Matt Gonzalez

#43. I think we are all connected in this world.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#44. There was so much fear after 9/11, and that fear caused people to make the wrong decisions.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#45. Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#46. Really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and I've always found my way through it in different ways.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#47. I always think politicians and even my dentist have more egos than actors.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#48. In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.

Gael Garcia Bernal

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

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#50. Good directors don't answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#51. My manager says we've been working with the FDA on this.

Carlos Gonzalez

#52. When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films had a lot of things to say that weren't getting expressed in the films I was used to seeing.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#53. After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

Charlie Gonzalez

#54. My curveball is a blessing. My father taught it to me. He felt that it was a pitch he wanted me to learn, right on the side of the house, and it just ended up working. I never asked what the tricks were, or anything like that.

Gio Gonzalez

#55. 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

#56. The arc of Ken Griffey Jr.'s swing has gotten bigger than when he hit line drives. Juan Gonzalez is a terrific power hitter, too.

Tony La Russa

#57. I speak Swedish, it's my first language. Of course, growing up with Latin American parents from Argentina, I also have some other influences from other cultures. But Sweden is where I feel the most at home.

Jose Gonzalez

#58. I can be unbearable sometimes asking for so many takes.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#59. I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#60. 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

#61. I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I'm able to accomplish.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#62. Always think about practice ... theory is not the endpoint of work, it is the work along the way to work.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

#63. Mr. Gonzalez watched Mr. Zalatimo probing his long index finger high into one of his nostrils. What would this one do? His feet tingled with fear.

John Kennedy Toole

#64. You never know who will see your images hanging. And I like that. I think you never really have control over the things that you do.

Luis Gonzalez

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

Rigoberto Gonzalez

#66. It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#67. 'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#68. Antonio Sanchez is from Mexico City. I met him at a Pat Metheny concert. He did a solo, and I thought, 'This is an octopus man!'

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#69. 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

#70. When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself.

Jose Gonzalez

#71. I listened to all the Misfits albums growing up and Red Hot Chili Peppers, too.

Jose Gonzalez

#72. If you engage people honestly, and you're willing to do the leg work, people will respond to that.

Matt Gonzalez

#73. 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

#74. And one of the most important values of Barack Obama is that he will always level with the American people.

Charlie Gonzalez

#75. I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#76. I don't have a career. I have a life.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#77. I have ADD. I can't pay attention to one thing too long.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#78. I plead for leniency. I understand that the road to redemption is going to be long for me.

Albert Gonzalez

#79. 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

#80. Toddlers are active explorers. They eagerly try new things and use materials in different ways. Toddlers want to be independent and they have a strong sense of ownership.

Janet Gonzalez-Mena

#81. That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#82. I enjoy twitter accounts that are meticulously edited just as much as I enjoy twitter accounts that aren't edited at all, but it can feel kind of disappointing to me when I see that someone is editing their tweets out of self-consciousness.

Mira Gonzalez

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

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#84. 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

#85. '21 Grams' is only one story told by three different points of view, but they are really physically connected - literally, with the heart.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#87. I often tweet things that I would feel too horrified/embarrassed/ashamed to say to a friend or loved one, even though most of my friends and loved ones read my Twitter account.

Mira Gonzalez

#88. Fidel Castro for me is like a father.

Elian Gonzalez

#89. Tony Gonzalez is one of the best ever and changed the way tight ends have transitioned themselves from college to the NFL. He can do a little bit of everything. He's a guy who you want to model yourself after.

Virgil Green

#90. I don't want to be too harsh, but there's very little evidence for 'intelligent design' or any sort of creator.

Jose Gonzalez

#91. In the old days drivers were fat and tires were skinny.

Jose Froilan Gonzalez

#92. Different is not always a good thing.

Christina Diaz Gonzalez

#93. It's the least that someone can do, someone like me that owes so much to this people and to the revolution: study hard, but more than that, defend them under any circumstance.

Elian Gonzalez

#94. 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

#95. I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.

Matt Gonzalez

#96. This idea that once you get into politics ... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.

Matt Gonzalez

#97. I guess I am actually quite shy, and I've always felt very self-conscious during interviews.

Jose Gonzalez

#98. Ever since I released my first album, I've tried not to use minor chords as the main element in songs. The way I sing is too melancholic.

Jose Gonzalez

#99. When I have been exposed to so many films that are so bad, my soul gets crushed. I just feel intoxicated.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#100. 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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