We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico.

I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone especial, you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.

Bringing a baby into the world is not like grilling enchiladas. It's a difficult thing.

Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them, not all of them.

I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations.

Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.

A love relationship has always been shaped by the context and times we live in.

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

There is nothing more dangerous to the adventurous spirit than a secure future that can predict the same sun on every horizon because they only see the same view.

When you say, "I can't do it!" - You never will.But, if you say, "I'll give it a try, " eventually you will succeed.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

He [Barak Obama]'s a guy from Chicago. He doesn't know what the hell to do. He's got a big pipe with a hole in it.

If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

Sometimes the problem is not the people in the band, but the people around the band.