The New York Times,Nov 23, 2003
Interview with film director
Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu
"Amores Perros", "21 Grams"

"Life is an inevitable chain of losses since we are born. We lose the womb, and we lose our childhood, and we lose our innocence, and we lose our friends in school, and we lose our dreams and our faith, and we lose our parents, and sometimes our jobs, and we lose our hair and our teeth and our health, and in the end our life. But how do we confront that? How can we give meaning to our life even if that will happen, want it or not?
...there is a moment that we stop living and start surviving. And how can we return to life again? We learn something about ourselves, we regain ourselves. And that's the dignity of being human.
...I think life is very bright and very beautiful, but it's also really dark and sometimes really frightening.
...I try to be very positive. It's just that I think within awareness of death. If you can deal with death, if you can talk about death, if you can understand death, I think then we will appreciate life more, because we will know that it's unique, that it is very fragile.
So we can say: "How lucky I am that I am alive now". People who are rejecting death, they don't want to deal with death, who don't talk about death, there are not really seeing how beautiful life really is.