I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.

I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone especial, you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.

Bringing a baby into the world is not like grilling enchiladas. It's a difficult thing.

Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them, not all of them.

I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations.

Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.

A love relationship has always been shaped by the context and times we live in.

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

Let's never stop holding each other's hands.We all need to have our hand held sometimes.

Believe in yourself and great things will happen.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and their participants know it.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.

The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

The quality most important to me, in the films I make, is honesty.

We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.