Story is important but the most important is the theme and how you're going to convey theme cinematically. I'm a believer also.

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'.

The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

He has come to seduce the god of seduction, and oh, has he come prepared.

Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.

There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

This is a business, the direct selling, that bizarrely works best when times are bad.

The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted.

I walked in on my wife and the milkman, the first thing she says is "don't tell the butcher"!