I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.

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'.

We are living in a world where moral climates have no atmosphere.

Every time I converse with you, I feel closer to home

I've signed a few Kaytoo photos and things and a couple of action figures [on ComicCon], but really it's not that many.

He tapped one of the ivory spikes between his legs and said, 'There be as good a way to lose your manhood as ever I've seen'.

You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie!

It is a fearful mistake to believe that because our wishes are not accomplished they can do no harm.

If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

I understand the seriousness of concussions.

If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

In Hollywood, most things are based on looks, so I'd love to do something that has nothing to do with how I look.