Let's Not Give The Electoral

I Think Since I Was In Drama School, I Wanted To Direct In The Theatre. When You Are An Actor, You Just Have To Open Your Eyes And You Start To Learn A Lot About How To Survive On Set And What's Important And How To Tell A Story. Directing Is Really About Putting Yourself Out There, To Be Slapped In A Way. You Know That In The Kitchen, You're Gonna Get Burned. It's Very Scary But Very Exciting As Well. If You Have Something To Say, You Have Nothing To Lose And You Probably Learn From The Experience.

I Didn't Know I Wanted To Do Films Until I Started To Do Them. Very Few Films Are Made In Mexico And Film-making Belonged To A Very Specific Group, A Clique.

We Think That Democracy Can Change A Lot Of Things, But We're Being Fooled, Because Democracy Is Not The Election. We've Been Taught That Democracy Is Having Elections. And It Isn't. Elections Are The Most Horrendous Aspect Of Democracy. It's The Most Mundane, Trivial, Disappointing, Dirty Aspect.

I Was Asked To Go To Cannes To Present Amores Perros. And Little Did I Know That This Film Would Be Huge. I Saw It For The First Time In Cannes, And It Was The First Time I'd Seen Myself On Such A Big Screen. And It Had A Huge Impact On Me - It Was The Strangest Feeling.

It's Difficult To Act In A Language That's Not Your Own. It Takes A Long Time To Put Your Head Around It And Feel Confident With It.