In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.

I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films

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.

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

You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.

I don't want to move over to Beverly Hills. My goal is to make the movies I want to make and support the people I want to support. That's it.

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.