Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

Style is just an impression. Style itself is hollow. Style, its ok style as long as it is part of a language. Style for style itself is just something very hollow.

We're born first humans then after they stamp our passport.

Technology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools.

Learn from your experience shooting your film, and then move on to the next.

You have to be very focused about the music that you have inside.

I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.

I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.

I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.

Every film is difficult. Making films, you're always going to have problems, there's always going to be challenges.

The best way to catch a bee is using its own honey.

A peevish self-willed harlotry it is.*She’s a stubborn little brat.*

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.

We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.

If gold ruste, what shall iren do?

I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.

Men, in general, are but great children.

The great thing is to become Saints.

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.