I think it's always important to give immediate positive reinforcement.

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'.

Always, just beyond all these things, was the silver sea, the lace border around all land like the silence around sounds or the unknowns beyond all knowledge.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.

Life is learning how to deal with traffic. It requires patience, a good sense of timing, and sometimes not giving in to the traffic but reshaping your life.

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.

When we look at clouds we see different shapes. See all the grace you can.

Honey, I am going to my grave with my eyelashes and my makeup on.