Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.

When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.

It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

A love relationship has always been shaped by the context and times we live in.

I was pretty excited to meet Cate Blanchett. She's great, she's amazing, I think she's one of the most beautiful women in the universe. And I mean the universe, not the world.