There is no success you can celebrate more than the success of a brother.
Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.
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.
You don't want to disappoint anybody, but you know, you lose your voice by trying to please everyone.
Sadly, there are a lot of ignorant people that have access to a microphone.
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 was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.
If we put our differences aside, we can do great things.
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?
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.
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.'
You exorcise the things that haunt you. That's one good thing about any artistic discipline.
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.
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.
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.
You have to accept who you are in order to make someone happy and be happy.
