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

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

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations.

We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.

A boxing workout is the heaviest thing, but it's the best. The worst part is that boxing gyms are the smelliest things in the universe. You have to lie down on the floor, where everyone has been sweating and spitting, and do 1,000 situps and push-ups.

When confronted with a clear definition of what it is to be Mexican, we encounter ourselves in a never ending allegory of mixes and chaos.