Vincent the Peaceful Assassin

"We are living in a society that is suffering from thanatophobia, the fear of death,"

"...It's important to learn how to live, but it's important to learn how to die, too, because it will happen no matter what.

"I found much more pain and darkness in a 20-minute TV newscast or in films where people are killed and nobody cares than in this film that is a human tragedy," the filmmaker added. "Not all beauty is beautiful. Beauty is not always found in the obvious places. Sometimes if you scratch the skin of pain, you can find beauty in a much more profound way."

Alejandro González Iñárritu