When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.

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'.

Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.

We finally realize this one day that our solitude is a blessing for us!

True felicity consists of its own consciousness.

You are losing because blacks are getting their civil rights in the cities.

The wisdom of samadhi is quite different. Higher level wisdom cannot be written down. It cannot be spoken. True wisdom is the knowledge of the universe that is beyond physical expression.

It was hollow, my triumph, I could feel that, but I held on to it just the same.

As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real.

It's the repetitive thing that brings space. That's one of the things I love secretly about hip-hop. Jazz doesn't have that element. It changes every bar, nothing is ever the same.

Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!

Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God.