No 'rules.' What are you, British or something? I guess I'm too nice... No wonder people take advantage of me.

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'.

People divulge things to you that they would not divulge to anyone else.

Be memorable. Be outstanding.

There's going to be space travel at some point.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.

Apparently there is nothing in the news that falls between inhuman acts of horror and kittens.

I was brought up in Florida, so there isn't much difference between playing there and playing here. The climax are about the same.

The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everthing about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.

No one, not even lovers, are truly psychic, and everyone flounders around each other, misunderstanding, misinterpreting, sending out confusing signals.

The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.