Learn from your experience shooting your film, and then move on to the next.

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.

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'.

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

Share them with only people who can help you with information and support. When you meet negative people, zip your mouth.

Those who see poverty looking for human slaves to capture, will tell you they saw him holding the handcuffs of laziness.

Any woman who laughs as dope as she does won't ever have trouble finding men.

Sometimes I try to figure out why I always push things to talk about the really dark stuff in interviews, and I just think it's healing - for the listener, and for the guest.

I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

Children add to the wonder of being alive.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.