We're born first humans then after they stamp our passport.

Story is important but the most important is the theme and how you're going to convey theme cinematically. I'm a believer also.

What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?

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.

Learn from your experience shooting your film, and then move on to the next.

When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.

I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.