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'.

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.

Every film is difficult. Making films, you're always going to have problems, there's always going to be challenges.

Don't try to provoke me, you won't win because of few words... I will be just quite because you are under my level!

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

War remains the decisive human failure.

Everybody's the first somebody, y'know.

Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.

To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned

I would only hire someone to work directly for me if I was willing to work for that person.

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

Repetition is beautiful.

People order clothes out of a catalogue, put it on an actor and everything is generic.