No 'rules.' What are you, British or something? I guess I'm too nice... No wonder people take advantage of me.

The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.

I have my misgivings about 3-D. I don't like the lack of blacks and whites, how it dulls the image, how the color gets corrupted. I don't necessarily like the experience of having heavy glasses in front of me.

I really believe there is the possibility of something great that can happen in the right hands.

Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.

I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy.

I think it's always important to give immediate positive reinforcement.