My father had to play the role of mother and father.

I was six when I started working in theater. I chose to be an adult before I should be.

I wish parents at the end would think a little bit about how everything we do affects the lives of our kids and defines who they're going to be.

I don't want to do a history lesson. I don't think cinema should be about that. Cinema should be about emotions.

You don't want everyone to know everything about you.

You have to accept who you are in order to make someone happy and be happy.

I can sing 'Love Me Do,' very well.

Everywhere you look, especially on TV, someone is promising to make you rich and famous.

I think film can change lives. Doing 'Milk' changed mine, for sure. When I see that someone like Harvey Milk changed his life and the lives of many others in just eight years, I feel powerful. I go out of the cinema saying, 'Maybe there's something I can do, too.'

Becoming a father is the biggest change you go through in life - at least that I've gone through in life.

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.

In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one day to make a story that's an hour and a half. So you can see the difference in the quality of the project.

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.'

Most people are living a life they don't like. They go to work where they don't want to work.

We consumers have to send a message every day of what we want and what we don't.

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.

With many things in life, you're there because there's a cute girl around that you want to go out with, and you end up finding magic. You end up not caring about the girl but wanting to stay there because of what you found. That happened with 'Amarcord' to me.

I hate fights. I try to talk people out of fighting if I can and if they start I run away.

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

I've got two young children, so holidays are not the same as they used to be. There are now two types: family holidays and holidays you need from that holiday.

I don't have this feeling like, 'Oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here.' I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about.

When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me.

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.

My dad was a theater designer, and I spent a lot of time hanging around the dressing room listening to whatever the actors were listening to, which is where I heard Pink Floyd for the first time.