When people laugh and applaud as characters are killing each other, and you never see the body that's lying there, or you never see the family that suffers, then it turns into a cool thing to do, like a videogame. Then, when you watch the news and see that 15 soldiers were killed, you start to see them as just numbers, material, information, images. We lose the real weight and real value of one simple human life.

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

The way America sees Mexico, if they have any sense of it, is like Taco Bell. Our countries are neighbors, and the only hard food to get in America is true Mexican. It's impossible to find, even in L.A. Why is that?

For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.

All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people.

The actors make the film. They're the ones that take this theoretical movie that's in your head and make it real. The success of a film is entirely on their shoulders. I admire them, because acting is such a difficult thing to do, and I personally can't understand it.

I think every beautiful tale in the world hides the truth and reveals it little by little.