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 learned is useless in this new adventure.

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.

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

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

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.