I have "fat-guy syndrome." If they give me $50 million to make a movie, I'll try to make it look like it cost a hundred. If they give me $60 million, I'll try to make it look like it cost $120.

If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.

I thought the tooth fairy was a very creepy concept as a kid. "Put your tooth under the pillow." I was like "Why does someone want my teeth?".

I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.

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

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

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.