What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.

I think that is the ultimate cowardice, when someone makes your choices for you in an institutional way. And you just say, "Well, I have no other option."

If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.

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.

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.

I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.

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