My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.

Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.

I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.

Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them, not all of them.

It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.

It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there.