Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.

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.

For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.

I feel that we have, as Mexicans, two things: one, a natural distrust of institutions. I hate organised religion, I hate organised politics, I hate the idea of the military and the police. Because we grew up distrusting all these sacred institutions, the only thing you have left is a vague, national sense of impending doom. Why do we drink and how are we so merry? Because we know that pretty soon, our time's up. There is a sense of fatality that makes us pretty chirpy people. You try to live. The only reason that dying is important is that it gives life sense.

The way I see film is I think film is like going out to dinner. I feel it's a banquet. You don't want to have the same food you have at home. You want to go and eat a fantastic Chinese meal or Italian or Greek.

I have my library separate from the family home, and every room is a different genre. The only room that I can guarantee I've read everything is the horror room.

I believe that the physical effect, the physical set, whenever you can, is ten times better than the digital effect.