I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.

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 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 film is difficult. Making films, you're always going to have problems, there's always going to be challenges.

A good artist makes imaginations real!

You make yourself happy while talking to someone. You will cease to talk when you lose the desire to impress that person.

The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel—which is to say it was a bright, cheery blue.

Any who stand in my way shall be cut down!

Scattergories is second base for Christians.

Don't cook. Don't clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum.

In all the years I played, he (Stan Williams) was the only guy who ever scared me and he was on my team.

Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.

A grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.