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Gael Garcia Bernal

Gael García Bernal (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡaˈel ɣarˈsi.a βerˈnal]; born 30 November 1978) is a Mexican film actor, director, model and producer. He and Diego Luna founded Canana Films in Mexico City. García Bernal is best known for his performances in the films Bad Education, The Motorcycle Diaries, Amores perros, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Babel and Coco, and for his role as Rodrigo de Souza in the Amazon Studios' web television series Mozart in the Jungle.

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Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.

Constructed, Electoral, Giving, Perspective, Real

Shamefully, Mexico isn't a country that provides opportunities equally and democratically to everyone. Although there is a myth as well about that, because if you have something to tell, you will find a way to do it. You might get frustrated doing it but hey, that's the country we live in. I want the chance to live and experience the country that I come from. I keep struggling and fighting against these very seductive offers that require that I live somewhere else. It is a shame that it has to be like that. But you are young. If you don't have a family then there's no excuse. Try, at least.

Country, Excuse, Fighting, Shame, Struggle

It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.

Balls, Goal, Heading, Next, Passing, Place

When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.

Catalyst, Catalyst For Change, Film, Football, Spiritual

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.

Aspect, Becoming, Democracy, Minimalizes, Publicity, Reduces

I love rehearsals and I love creating a character, sticking with it until you have something to tell. It's always different though. Sometimes a director will tell you from day one what they want. Then you throw in your idea.

Character, Creating, Different, Ideas, Rehearsals, Tell

A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone especial, you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.

Chance, Especial, Give, Giving Up, Love, Path

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

Actors, Mexican, Paid, People, Respect, Way

I was pretty excited to meet Cate Blanchett. She's great, she's amazing, I think she's one of the most beautiful women in the universe. And I mean the universe, not the world.

Beautiful, Mean, Think, Thinking, World

My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.

Love Is, Interesting, Challenges, Money, Take

When confronted with a clear definition of what it is to be Mexican, we encounter ourselves in a never ending allegory of mixes and chaos.

Allegory, Confronted, Definitions, Encounter, Encounters, Mexican

Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them, not all of them.

Amazing, Has Beens, Recently, Risotto, Risottos

It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

Independent, Money, Movie, States, United States

A love relationship has always been shaped by the context and times we live in.

Love Relationship, Shaped, Love, Times, Context, Live

I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.

Apples, Country, England, Islands, Taste, Thinking

I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations.

Believe, Blood, Fervently, Life, Motivation, Nature

Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.

Alexander, Amazing, Director, Directors, Firsts, Gonzalez

Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.

Brought, Like, People, Sea, Think, Thinking

It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

Act, Difficult, Language, Long

It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there.

Common, Kilometers, Live, Mexico, People

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