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 nature, but I try to explore deeply where it comes from and where it goes and what it creates. Not in a moralistic or preachy way, but just to observe the real consequences of violence in a human being or in a society.

I think the arts should get big support, but my country has a lot of needs more important than film. Medication, education, food... The poverty is overwhelming. There are simply more important things to be attended to.

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

I never deny a true experience in one shot.

I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.

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

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.