Diego Luna Quotes
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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've got two young children, so holidays are not the same as they used to be. There are now two types: family holidays and holidays you need from that holiday.
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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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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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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 enjoy working with actors so much and having the chance to be surprised by them.
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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 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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Julio Cesar Chavez is the most important sporting figure we have ever had.
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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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If your neighbor's reality changes, yours will change as well.
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You exorcise the things that haunt you. That's one good thing about any artistic discipline.
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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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I always wanted to be a futbol player, but I was never good enough.
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You have to accept who you are in order to make someone happy and be happy.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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When we started CANANA, I wasn't married, so I guess I was married to the idea of CANANA.
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When I was 12, I used to be the best friend of the most beautiful girls, but just the best friend. They would always come to me to cry about a guy who broke their heart, and I would just be sitting there thinking, 'I wish I was the guy and not the best friend.'