I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.

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'.

Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.

Tell me why it feels like you're a part of my soul?

Sometimes the guilty one is not the person who has committed the crime, but the person who has created the possibility for it to be committed.

Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality that guarantees all the others. - Winston Churchill

Every golfer has at least 14 enemies: his clubs.

One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food

I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic.

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.