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.

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

There are times when you are in despair, because in order not to betray who you are, you don't compromise, you don't make movies that would be very lucrative or prestigious or easily understood. And yet I stay attached to the most uncanny premises. It's never been easy.

Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.

My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.

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

In a world where we are so pragmatic and materialistic, fear is the only emotion that allows even a sophisticated person to believe in something beyond.