There is no success you can celebrate more than the success of a brother.
Diego Luna
Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.
You don't want to disappoint anybody, but you know, you lose your voice by trying to please everyone.
Many of my favourite hotels are in London. I like the Covent Garden Hotel and I stayed at Blakes last time I was in London. I like the feeling of warmth and homeliness that you get from both of those places.
As consumers, we are making choices,and we allow things to exist, and we celebrate the existence of things. And we can also boycott those things we don't want to be part of.
If we put our differences aside, we can do great things.
Sadly, there are a lot of ignorant people that have access to a microphone.
I was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.
There's a big debate in the U.S. about immigration reform. We need to reflect on who's feeding this country today, why this community has been ignored.
I think film should raise questions, not give answers. I think film should challenge people to reflect, debate and get by themselves to the answer that fits them.
Boxing is about hunger.
Audiences want to feel represented, want to be able to empathize with the characters and the stories they are seeing on the screen.
In film, normally what happens is that not many people work more than once. Normally, it breaks couples. It doesn't make them.
I'm a terrible dancer.
No makeup can substitute for faces that have actually been under the sun.
Acting is about communicating, reacting, and sharing - and friendship is about all of those things, too.
I wasn't a fan of boxing, I was a fan of Julio Cesar Chavez. All of Mexico stopped to watch his fights. Old, young, left, right and centre.
I started to work when I was really young. For me, friendship is work, and work is friendship. Those who are next to me and that have been there for a long time are those who can work with me, play football with me, and go watch a film with me.
It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.
I try to always bring topics to the table that matter, topics that I think need to be discussed and reflected on.
I don't make films for myself; I make them in order to communicate with an audience.
You have to accept who you are in order to make someone happy and be happy.
Mexico is where I fell in love for the first time; it's where my family lives... so however much I travel, I inevitably return there.
I was six when I started working in theater. I chose to be an adult before I should be.
California is one of the strongest states with one of the solidest economies but, at the same time, ignores the reality of its farm workers.
I've gone across that border many times. My son was born in the United States; he is also a Mexican-American with the two passports.
If your neighbor's reality changes, yours will change as well.
When I was a teenager, I went on an organised three-day tour of Rome. It was the worst experience ever. I promised myself that I would never travel like that again, with someone telling you what to see and what not to see.
Since 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' I started to spend a lot of time in the United States, and my son was born there.
I would pretty much like to forget the music that happened to me between the ages of eight and 11, so I'm going to say the first album I bought was the special edition of 'Dark Side of the Moon.'
I can sing 'Love Me Do,' very well.
I grew up watching cinema in my country that wasn't telling stories about us, and we had to find a way to connect, and our references, our role models had nothing to do with us. And I'm so glad that it's changing.
Most people are living a life they don't like. They go to work where they don't want to work.
When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.
Many times when you're a tourist you can just stay on the surface and not really experience the place you're visiting, which will probably leave you disappointed. Everywhere has something interesting; it's just about being curious enough to find it and scratch where you have to scratch and stay longer and walk further.
The first time I heard the Mars Volta, I had a feeling I was experiencing something that people must have felt when they first heard Led Zeppelin. They have the same kind of power.
I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.
When I was 12, I used to be the best friend of the most beautiful girls, but just the best friend. They would always come to me to cry about a guy who broke their heart, and I would just be sitting there thinking, 'I wish I was the guy and not the best friend.'
When I saw 'Incendios,' it changed the way I looked at my life... and my family. It was very strong. I believe that theater has that power.
Being at a film festival reminds me of the power of film. The power that we have in our hands. Telling specific stories about personal matters can start the debate that is needed today, and that connect you with realities that you had no idea were connected.
I always wondered why there weren't any films about Cesar Chavez. There are movies about other civil rights leaders in this country, but why not Chavez?
You exorcise the things that haunt you. That's one good thing about any artistic discipline.
To me, directing movies is just that. It's a need to question myself and set the things that disturb me on the table.
When I was a kid, if I liked something from merchandising, I'd have to go to the toy store.
What we have in Mexico and Latin America is a wide diversity of voices, but in Mexico, for example, we haven't been able to get a lot of the movies into theaters.
I'm always going to be working on my English, and I'm always going to work on my English so that I can do different characters from different nationalities.
I always liked Darth Vader. I remember, when I was a kid, I went to the toy store for the Darth Vader pencil case. I took that to school for years.
I was the happiest kid ever, but I did choose to live around adults and today, now that I have a kid, I don't know if I would let him do it.
Julio Cesar Chavez is the most important sporting figure we have ever had.
To me, war is so far from something I understand.
