Every film is difficult. Making films, you're always going to have problems, there's always going to be challenges.

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.

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.

Technology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools.

I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.

My mom, she was, she studied chemistry. And later on she changed and majored, she changed later in her career, in her life and studied philosophy and then she did a perfect clash, connection between chemistry and philosophy and she became a witch.

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