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

There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four, five years of your life into it and you come out with a thing that you're not proud of.

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

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 believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is the sin of banality and comfort. Those things are in my movies, but also my movies are quite the fruit of somebody who defines himself as an agnostic.

Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.

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