"Why did I write Amores Perros? I think every play implies a position towards the world, in some ways it`s a declaration of principles.

In Love's A Bitch (Amores Perros) I wanted to write a script that didn't trivialise violence and death, that made the reader feel the tremendous weight of a murder, the frightful consequences of a car accident, the reasons behind betrayal, the tragic momentum of illicit love. A script that could convey the pain, confusion, sadness, joy, ruin and hope of life itself. A script that was as fiercely human as possible.

I wanted to write a script that was free from the disgusting tyranny of political correctness (which is a gross softening of human experience through an outdated and cowardly morality). A script in which the characters could descend into their own hell and, after bouncing fiercely between what's right and what's wrong, find the path towards a reconciliation with themselves. I wanted the characters to be contradictory, paradoxical, willing to live intensely and to pay the price for it: death, mutilation, jail, indifference"                    Guillermo Arriaga Jordan

"I don't know whether I managed to write the script I wanted, but it resulted in a movie of which I am very proud, " says Jordan. "Under the intense and committed direction of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the dedication and support of Altavista Films, and with the participation and complicity of many men and women I highly respect, Amores Perros is a film that exudes instinct, passion and a lot of humanity." 

From the time I read Guillermo Arriaga`s first draft (we worked on 36 drafts over three years) it moved, shook and disturbed me," says director Alejandro Gonzaiez Inarritu, "I could not only see and feel the characters, but I could smell them and feel something profoundly human for them. It was like they stepped out of the paper and stood before me, suffering, with perfectly organic dialogues. If I'm certain of anything it's that I didn't make this film with my intellect, but by sheer instinct and intuition. I know I didn't put my heart into it, rather my entrails and a piece of my liver.

I think everybody gave a piece of their lives to the project, there was always a very strange mystique around the set - a silence which sowed mixed feelings and reaped deafening emotions. It was never inspiration, just perspiration; there was no mercy, compassion or compromise, things are what they are, not what we want them to be.

I wanted to be a silent but proactive witness of real facts taking place before our eyes. It was something close to documenting a piece of reality, and maybe this is why the film is disturbing and exciting, because the worst we can see in it is ourselves. Sometimes refusing to accept our nature or going against it is also a part of this very nature.

In Love's A Bitch characters forget their divinity and dive deep into their animal nature in order to redeem and survive themselves, their decisions and consequences through pain, but always with great beauty, courage, dignity and hope. This is why these characters are likeable and endearing: they may be unfaithful but never disloyal.

After reading dozens of scripts, the profound and complex structure of Love's A Bitch, along with the fortunate and vital empathy that bonded me with Guillermo Arriaga, led me to know I had finally found a story that would allow me to exorcise my terrible fear of the ordinary human experience of day-to-day existence, which has perhaps been hidden behind the frivolous aesthetic of TV commercials.

I wanted to touch and to touch myself, to feel alive and make the characters and viewers alive. I wanted to strike, caress, entertain, move and provoke. I wanted to take the viewer up and down the extremes of a roller coaster ride, no breaks. I wanted to completely strip the characters naked before the camera without them feeling embarrassed, to find the perfect catharsis or the uncomfortable shame of the viewer watching him or herself.

With this regard, I think the actors and actresses` heartrending and incredible work in the film accomplished a lot more than I had imagined."

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