I love L.A. I always have such a great time in L.A. The way I kind of define me and L.A. is the noise of the factory doesn't let me sleep well.

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'.

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

Managing a goal is the best way to guarantee reaching it.

Pissing out the window, and sh*tting out the window, are two different things!

O Weep No More ForMe When I Am Gone!

...if you smile for no reason at all you will actually start to feel happy

If God gives you a hundred bucks, you better bet He’s going to ask you what you bought.

No words come easily to my lips. I think ultimately - what I like to think is that I'm in some sense hearing the mystery itself.

The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.

I have no ill feelings for nobody, I wish everybody the best, and I'm cool with everybody.