Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it..

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems..

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life..

I would have liked to come back in 300; they did an origins film of 300 just recently, and it would have been fun to come back and see what happened ….

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….

The more experience I get, the more I know to relax and let go of things because there's so much that is out of your control. So much needs to happen….

I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention….

Every ad for every film is exactly the same..

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11..

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory..

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted..

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film..

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism..

I love movies, don't get me wrong. But I don't go to the cinema. I see movies at the end of the year as a glut from the Academy. I binge-watch all th….

I want to be involved in things I can be really proud of. There's a lot of bad films being made and I don't understand how they got the money for it.….

Making your first feature film is actually impossible..

I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected..

As far as I'm concerned, the coolest word in film is 'cult.'.

Film, I think, is my medium..

In many points in history films and filmmakers have been banned for political reasons- that's how annoying they can be to oppressing systems, how dan….

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that..