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

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.

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.

I was pretty excited to meet Cate Blanchett. She's great, she's amazing, I think she's one of the most beautiful women in the universe. And I mean the universe, not the world.

The people inside the gym didn’t stand a dead drunk’s chance.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.

Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

It doesn't matter if you're religious or not. Does anything make you feel more uncomfortable than some stranger going, I'd like to talk to you about Jesus?

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.

It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will.

...One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.