You’ll meet her. She’s very pretty, even though sometimes she’s sad for many days at a time. You’ll see, when she smiles, you’ll love her.

I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window.

There are times when you are in despair, because in order not to betray who you are, you don't compromise, you don't make movies that would be very lucrative or prestigious or easily understood. And yet I stay attached to the most uncanny premises. It's never been easy.

And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.

The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.

When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.