In the creative process, my ego has always been a huge tyrant ... a dictator and kind of rude and very misleading, because sometimes when I'm doing s….

I never deny a true experience in one shot..

I think movies in general should have more respect for the audience than they do. Too many films are afraid to confuse people, so all the information….

As a sensitive filmmaker, I think you have to really be careful in how you explore it. Not that you can't tell any story you want - I'm not calling f….

My country has been wracked with violence for a long time. Just to see all the violence on the news makes you sick. It's true that violence is in our….

I remember, the first time I saw a [Andrei] Tarkovsky film, I was shocked by it. I didn't know what to do. I was fascinated, because suddenly I reali….

When people laugh and applaud as characters are killing each other, and you never see the body that's lying there, or you never see the family that s….

Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things..

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation..

I was a street kid, basically. But really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and need….

The actors make the film. They're the ones that take this theoretical movie that's in your head and make it real. The success of a film is entirely o….

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician..

Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want..

For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it..

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life..

All people know that they will die, but they don't actually believe it..

I hate superficial violence. It's shallow and stupid, and the impact on the audience is really bad..

I think every beautiful tale in the world hides the truth and reveals it little by little..

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party..

Every time that I'm challenged with a film I think that I haven't learned anything, that every film is different and that every thing that I have lea….

I was aware of the possible biases you could get as a commercial director, like being too concerned about the technical aspects of the form rather th….