I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but also to create a space in which the director calls the shots.
I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.
Style is just an impression. Style itself is hollow. Style, its ok style as long as it is part of a language. Style for style itself is just something very hollow.
Technology is technology. It is not inherently good or bad. Technologies are tools.
We’re born first humans then after they stamp our passport.
I’m interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.
I guess I have a short attention span! I’m interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.
The great thing about the moon landing is that my grandmother got the first color TV in order to be able to see the moon landing that was in black and white.
The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.
I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.
The long takes process doesn’t allow for that many takes. In the past I have shot over 50 takes of different shots. Sometimes you end up using take 64, sometimes take four.
When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that’s the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you’re like that. They just want you to be normal.
Cautionary tales were fantastic in the ’70s.
Learn from your experience shooting your film, and then move on to the next.
There is a certain thing that you have to just stick to the plan, stick to what you want to do, and you try to work with studios and executives that they get it.
The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it’s just to see what you learn for the next one.
What’s the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?