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

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.

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

I was a street kid, basically. But really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and I've always found my way through it in different ways.

Maybe next year the government might impose some immigration rules on the academy. Two Mexicans in a row is suspicious. [On Mexican immigrants in the US] I hope they can be treated with respect of the ones who came before and built this incredible immigrant nation.

In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.

Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.