I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.
As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
I love monsters. If I go to a church, I'm more interested in the gargoyles than the saints. I really don't care much about the idea of normal - that's very abstract to me. I think that perfection is practically unattainable but imperfection is right at hand. So that's why I love monsters: because they represent a side of us we should actually embrace and celebrate.
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.
If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist. . . . Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit. . . We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.
You can always go back to not making any money, and then you get the freedom. And I'm going to continue doing it, because it really is a fantastic sense of liberation.
When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.
As relationships progress, the time you spend smooching diminishes. Where kissing was once an enjoyable entree unto itself, it becomes a mere appetizer couples hasten through on the way to the main course.
you don't get to make withdrawals from the time bank. Only deposits.
I wanted the camera to actually observe the people who come from the outside to live inside a country, instead of fantasizing about them. Also, I wanted to say the sum of who we become is thanks to the people we meet. I wanted to make a positive film.
She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.