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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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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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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You don't want everyone to know everything about you.
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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'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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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 always thought of documentaries as films through which you find your voice as a narrator.
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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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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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There is no success you can celebrate more than the success of a brother.
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I definitely promise to always make films about issues that matter to me.
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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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I always wondered why there weren't any films about Cesar Chavez. There are movies about other civil rights leaders in this country, but why not Chavez?
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My father had to play the role of mother and father.
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Definitely directing is the thing I like the most because this is where everything you know can be used. It's the most personal process ever. It's the most demanding one, but again, rewarding.
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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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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.