I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.

Oliver Stone will never be happy with the first take. He wants more than that. When you’re delivering your lines, he’ll stop you and tell you some kind of riddle about the character and you have to go away and figure that out. If you’re hoping for him to give you all the answers, then you’re in for a long day.

As a child that was disenfranchised from everything, and that was in a world that was the wrong size, run by the wrong people, the wrong morale and the wrong rules, I felt completely outside of that, and I wanted some measure of control, and the measure of control I found was through fear.

At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes "I'm not my dad" or "I'm not my mom."

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.

America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.