I want to see movies where I can relate to the guy.
In film, normally what happens is that not many people work more than once. Normally, it breaks couples. It doesn't make them.
As producers, we choose who to work with and what films to get involved with. There's no rule, but it has to come from an honest place. It has to come from a necessity.
The nice thing about my job is that it allows me to look deeper into issues and then tell stories with that information.
If your neighbor's reality changes, yours will change as well.
Acting is about communicating, reacting, and sharing - and friendship is about all of those things, too.
The beauty of football is that it's about 11, and another five, at least, are sitting outside. You cannot get competitive.
You see Mexican cinema in festivals throughout the world, and you see Mexican directors getting recognized at Cannes, at the Oscars, in Berlin, but the question is, What is the end result of that in terms of the market? That's where it's lacking.
When we started CANANA, I wasn't married, so I guess I was married to the idea of CANANA.
There's a lot of freedom to do anything you want in Mexico. It's just that that freedom belongs to a few. It's a huge country with a big contrast. There is this big inequality, so those like us that have the chance to do things, we know we are very lucky.
As an actor, you have to believe in the point of view of a director; as a director, you have to be able to express what your point of view is and invite everybody to join you on that journey. So it's always about opening up.
I would say doing film is all about trust and conviction. It's about believing in an idea.
Boxing is about hunger.
The first fight I ever saw live was the first Castillo-Corrales match in Las Vegas in 2005.
When I was young, football and theatre were the only places I was happy. I remember school as just what happened in between the things that I liked.
I connect much more with theatre actors than with cinema actors - insofar as you can speak of 'cinema actors' in Mexico, because there isn't a big film industry.
I don't make films for myself; I make them in order to communicate with an audience.
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 don't want to come and conquer American films or the American market. I just want to do movies that I care about, stories that I like.
My mother died when I was two years old; that's why I have so many daddy issues. And that's why my relationship with my dad is so strong.
