Diego Luna Quotes
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If your neighbor's reality changes, yours will change as well.
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When I saw 'Incendios,' it changed the way I looked at my life... and my family. It was very strong. I believe that theater has that power.
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I enjoy working with actors so much and having the chance to be surprised by them.
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You see Mexican cinema in festivals throughout the world, and you see Mexican directors getting recognized at Cannes, at the Oscars, in Berlin, but the question is, What is the end result of that in terms of the market? That's where it's lacking.
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I connect much more with theatre actors than with cinema actors - insofar as you can speak of 'cinema actors' in Mexico, because there isn't a big film industry.
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I think film can change lives. Doing 'Milk' changed mine, for sure. When I see that someone like Harvey Milk changed his life and the lives of many others in just eight years, I feel powerful. I go out of the cinema saying, 'Maybe there's something I can do, too.'
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You don't want to disappoint anybody, but you know, you lose your voice by trying to please everyone.
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In Mexico, we call it 'terco': the guy who goes out every day, and every day they tell him no, and the next day he's there, and the next day he's there. That's the kind of people who make movies in Mexico.
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I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.
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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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When we started CANANA, I wasn't married, so I guess I was married to the idea of CANANA.
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Film can be a tool for change; it can start a debate.
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To me, directing movies is just that. It's a need to question myself and set the things that disturb me on the table.
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My dad was a theater designer, and I spent a lot of time hanging around the dressing room listening to whatever the actors were listening to, which is where I heard Pink Floyd for the first time.
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The first fight I ever saw live was the first Castillo-Corrales match in Las Vegas in 2005.
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I always wanted to be a futbol player, but I was never good enough.
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Most people are living a life they don't like. They go to work where they don't want to work.
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You have to accept who you are in order to make someone happy and be happy.
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You exorcise the things that haunt you. That's one good thing about any artistic discipline.
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I wasn't a fan of boxing, I was a fan of Julio Cesar Chavez. All of Mexico stopped to watch his fights. Old, young, left, right and centre.
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For me, the relationship with my father is the most important thing that I have.
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I saw 'A New Hope' on my Vidamax because I came a little late to the party.
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With many things in life, you're there because there's a cute girl around that you want to go out with, and you end up finding magic. You end up not caring about the girl but wanting to stay there because of what you found. That happened with 'Amarcord' to me.
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In Mexico, this idea that fathers go away is really deeply accepted because, for so long, so many men have had to leave to work in the United States.