I just wanted to show the migrants as complex humans with flaws and weakness, with good and bad things, and show that they're parents and family men. I wanted to show them with everything, as they are.

I always think politicians and even my dentist have more egos than actors.

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

I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it.

There's nothing better than being in a film that translates to audiences and makes people think and feel good and walk away with great revelations in their own life of some kind. But when the process and the experience and the fun of that matches, it's a good feeling.

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

Mexico City is very different now than when I grew up, but I was in the streets all the time - though I was born to a middle-class neighborhood where there weren't a lot of gangs and things. I was always comfortable.