Technology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools.

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.

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'.

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

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.

I don't need headlines. For me, it's the truth that matters.

You just don't really rehearse kissing scenes, whether it's male or female.

I like definitive things.

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company.

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

To photograph is to confer importance.