What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?

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'.

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.

I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.

Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told

Food in Dublin has gotten immeasurably better than it was. When I was a kid, there weren't a lot of options. Now you're overwhelmed with options.

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

there comes a time in every rabbi's life when he thinks he's Moses.

Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.

I married somebody who is very secure. He's been in my corner from the time we met, and we grew in this together.

Funk is the unending cycle of life.