I find it very stupid that teenagers could only see caricatures of teenagers but they couldn't see films that you try to be a truthful context, a truthful portrayal of teenagers.

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'.

Why don't we learn about the mental health which affects every minute of our lives? ... Where is the school for learning [about] positive mental health?

I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. I remember reading a Robert Bly book of poetry.

Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.

The purpose of the pistol is to stop a fight that somebody else has started, almost always at very short range.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The solution to this problem [welfare-statism] must take a positive form: the restoration of a faith in what free men can accomplish.

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.

I'm still the Dun Dada of all big men.

Learning itself is a fulfilling adventure at all points in the process. In fact, psychologists have listed learning as one of the basic, universal joys of human experience.