When I learned to switch jealousy for admiration, it unblocked a lot of things.

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'.

Soldiers train for war, but pray for peace

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.

All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

William Regal, what does besmirched mean?

For some reason I get advertised when I travel as a political comedian, which I'm not. Sometimes I talk about it and sometimes I don't.

I don’t want to hang on and Cry over something so little, Like a springtime illusion that’ll disappear after I wake up

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

I always like to plan ahead of time and follow up.

Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out.

Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them.