The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.

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'.

Somehow the thought she might be next wasn't nearly as terrifying as the realization he was gone.

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.

As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.

It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.

Sharing my faith is not a monologue, it is a dialogue.

Don't try to lawyer me out of common sense.

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

The government is not doing anything to help the country to heal. The government is just making cosmetic changes.