When confronted with a clear definition of what it is to be Mexican, we encounter ourselves in a never ending allegory of mixes and chaos.

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.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

What is destructive is impatience haste expecting too much too fast.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.

I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.

A day on a film set is maddening.

It's not good to meet you heroes. The humanity in them or the a**hole in them will bring it down. And you don't want to do that.

Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are so that you can finally be happy? The truth is that all unhappiness is caused by denial of the present.

I don't talk about my personal life in great detail. I write about it in my songs, and I feel like you can share enough about your life in your music to let people know what you're going through.

Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.