I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone especial, you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.

Bringing a baby into the world is not like grilling enchiladas. It's a difficult thing.

Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them, not all of them.

I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations.

Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.

A love relationship has always been shaped by the context and times we live in.

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

I was pretty excited to meet Cate Blanchett. She's great, she's amazing, I think she's one of the most beautiful women in the universe. And I mean the universe, not the world.

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Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening.

Youth must triumph... now. Afterwards, it will be life.

I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself.

Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist.

Often the confidence of the patient in his physician does more for the cure of his disease than the physician with all his remedies. Reasserting the statement by Avicenna.

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list.

You're staring," Lana said. "Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring in teenage boys.