N. V. M. Gonzalez Quotes

A champion always prepares to win.

Poverty is not a circumstance, it's an attitude.

Poor is the man whom is not content with what he has.

if you want to be understood ...Listen.

I like the possibility of failure. I don't want to be in a comfortable zone.

I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'

It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.

'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.

I think that the best things come from thought, without thinking. I think that's the smartest use of the intelligence that we all have.

The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.

My kid will come home from seeing the latest 'Transformers' movie, and I'll ask him, 'How was it?' 'Amazing!' 'What was it about?' 'I don't know, but it was amazing!'

Too much knowledge and analysis can be paralysis.

When I talk about sad things, I talk about sad things.

I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.

My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations.

'Amores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident.

If I had been at an assembly line for films, I don't know if I would be the best driver. I think I would have crashed the car.

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

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in love with everybody, but unfortunately, nobody was in love with me.

My father had a difficult relationship with success, maybe because he never obtained it. But he was very wise about it because he observed how you can become rotten fruit once you get power.