“My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations.”

“if you want to be understood ...Listen.”

“My father had a difficult relationship with success, maybe because he never obtained it. But he was very wise about it because he observed how you can become rotten fruit once you get power.”

“When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in love with everybody, but unfortunately, nobody was in love with me.”

“I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.”

“If I had been at an assembly line for films, I don't know if I would be the best driver. I think I would have crashed the car.”

“The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.”

“'Amores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident.”

“My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations.”

“I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.”

“When I talk about sad things, I talk about sad things.”