I really believe there is the possibility of something great that can happen in the right hands.

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'.

It is the things that happen, then how you react to them, that gives life some meaning.

What is courage without risk... It wouldn’t really be courage, would it?

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

Love, having become a god, becomes a demon.

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight

To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.

Every problem has a creative solution.

The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.