Diego Luna Quotes
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I was the happiest kid ever, but I did choose to live around adults and today, now that I have a kid, I don't know if I would let him do it.
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I hate fights. I try to talk people out of fighting if I can and if they start I run away.
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Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.
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Directors should be paid for promising impossible things.
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My father became completely responsible for my education and for raising me.
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I can sing 'Love Me Do,' very well.
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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.
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I always thought of documentaries as films through which you find your voice as a narrator.
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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.
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In film, normally what happens is that not many people work more than once. Normally, it breaks couples. It doesn't make them.
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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.
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I definitely promise to always make films about issues that matter to me.
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I try to always bring topics to the table that matter, topics that I think need to be discussed and reflected on.
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You don't want everyone to know everything about you.
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There is no success you can celebrate more than the success of a brother.
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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.
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The first time I heard the Mars Volta, I had a feeling I was experiencing something that people must have felt when they first heard Led Zeppelin. They have the same kind of power.
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As producers, we choose who to work with and what films to get involved with. There's no rule, but it has to come from an honest place. It has to come from a necessity.
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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.
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Many times when you're a tourist you can just stay on the surface and not really experience the place you're visiting, which will probably leave you disappointed. Everywhere has something interesting; it's just about being curious enough to find it and scratch where you have to scratch and stay longer and walk further.
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My father had to play the role of mother and father.
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We consumers have to send a message every day of what we want and what we don't.
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Being at a film festival reminds me of the power of film. The power that we have in our hands. Telling specific stories about personal matters can start the debate that is needed today, and that connect you with realities that you had no idea were connected.
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I don't make films for myself; I make them in order to communicate with an audience.