Diego Luna Quotes
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I enjoy working with actors so much and having the chance to be surprised by them.
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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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I'm a terrible dancer.
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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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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 always liked Darth Vader. I remember, when I was a kid, I went to the toy store for the Darth Vader pencil case. I took that to school for years.
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When you make a film, it's because it's important to you, it means something to you.
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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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You don't want to disappoint anybody, but you know, you lose your voice by trying to please everyone.
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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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You exorcise the things that haunt you. That's one good thing about any artistic discipline.
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I wish parents at the end would think a little bit about how everything we do affects the lives of our kids and defines who they're going to be.
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For me, the relationship with my father is the most important thing that I have.
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Film can be a tool for change; it can start a debate.
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I hope we see more stories where the heroes are real heroes, real people that don't need weapons or super powers to change people's lives.
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I always wanted to be a futbol player, but I was never good enough.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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 theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an audience, and you're in control, and every night is different depending on you and the relationship with the other actors. It's as simple as that.
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You have to accept who you are in order to make someone happy and be happy.