Art is a beautiful world to get into. Once you are there, it is very difficult to get out of it. Like, once you start painting, you don't want to leave your brush and colours.

I know I'm blessed with good looks.

There is a future for English films. Don't we all talk, breathe, and think in English? If we can talk and think in English, we can also make films in English.

I love Priyanka Chopra, Kareena Kapoor, and Tabu.

I speak Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, and English.

I see candles as varied things. They give a warm glow, and fire purifies.

When a successful man goes to pieces, his frustration engulfs the entire surroundings.

My candle-making business gives me decent money.

I was never a chiffon and satin person. I am always a cotton person. It's just the way I am.

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.

Film is a tool of change.

Directors should be paid for promising impossible things.

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.

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.

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 make films for myself; I make them in order to communicate with an audience.

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.

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.

Boxing is about hunger.

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.

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.

When we started CANANA, I wasn't married, so I guess I was married to the idea of CANANA.

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.