For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made

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

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.

As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.

Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -

I think once a Catholic, always a Catholic. You never escape. I still have Catholic guilt. It is in its basis a really powerful religion and a really strong set of beliefs. They permeate my work in many ways.