I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.

When somebody says something I don't agree with, I say I'd rather not. It comes to the point where that is the strongest form of resistance. As a Mexican, it took me a long while to learn one word in English, "no". And that is the one word we have in common.

The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.

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.

You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

I think we live our lives seeking the shortest route, the closest parking space - everything quick, cheap, fast. And it's not better. Two-thirds of the satisfaction of getting something is the process of getting it.

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