Diego Luna Quotes
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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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If your neighbor's reality changes, yours will change as well.
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Mexico is where I fell in love for the first time; it's where my family lives... so however much I travel, I inevitably return there.
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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 always wanted to be a futbol player, but I was never good enough.
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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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You don't want to disappoint anybody, but you know, you lose your voice by trying to please everyone.
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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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You exorcise the things that haunt you. That's one good thing about any artistic discipline.
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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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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 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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For me, the relationship with my father is the most important thing that I have.
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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 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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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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Becoming a father is the biggest change you go through in life - at least that I've gone through in life.
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Film can be a tool for change; it can start a debate.
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You have to accept who you are in order to make someone happy and be happy.
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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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As an actor, you are always someone else's tool. You can have a connection with them, and you can share their point of view, but ultimately, you are helping them reflect.
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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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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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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.