I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again..

When I learned to switch jealousy for admiration, it unblocked a lot of things..

You have to be very focused about the music that you have inside..

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 somethin….

I love that process in which there is no safety net. Then the actor also can allow mistakes, because there's no such a thing as a mistake. You're wor….

I really believe there is the possibility of something great that can happen in the right hands..

Story is important but the most important is the theme and how you're going to convey theme cinematically. I'm a believer also..

Learn from your experience shooting your film, and then move on to the next..

Every film is difficult. Making films, you're always going to have problems, there's always going to be challenges..

Technology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools..

The great thing about the moon landing is that my grandmother got the first color TV in order to be able to see the moon landing that was in black an….

It's a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could have cut a G-rated v….

I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but also to create a space in which the dire….

As a director, you're only as good as your collaborators. You surround with collaborators that are going to understand what you're trying to do. Not ….

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one..

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 ….

I learned there's an amazing unexplored territory in terms of narrative. Before, I thought the unexplored territory was the form, the way you shoot a….

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 histor….

When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology.….

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 lear….

As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. And my own passion was that I wanted to be a film director. I realized that being an astronaut was not going t….