A Quote by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.
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I do think that I have a sensitivity to the depictions of maybe all minorities in literature. And I think that the experience of people who look like me is so rarely captured in big, mainstream American fiction that you tend to sort of empathize with any character of color who pops up.
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