The great thing about the moon landing is that my grandmother got the first color TV in order to be able to see the moon landing that was in black and white.

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

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.

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

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.

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.

Wow, I wish I could have done something like that.” That’s the thing, with other filmmakers, if I like them I just feel admiration. And yes, I usually say, “I wish I could have been part of that creative process,” because the films I admire like that are so specific that I know the creative process is also so specific, it’s nothing you could just imitate.