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Millions of Mexicans leave their kids in order to take care of other kids. That's a very painful thing.
If the audience, in minute 50, is thinking about the way a movie is shot, there's a problem. I want it to permeate emotionally.
'21 Grams' is only one story told by three different points of view, but they are really physically connected - literally, with the heart.
I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn't be defeated by the daily onslaught of problems.
In hotels, every time I make a reservation and they never find my name, they never can pronounce it; it's so long, and sometimes they confuse.
I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you.
We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity.
My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.
From the time we open our eyes, we live in a Steadicam form, and the only editing is when we talk about our lives or remember things.
As the camera, I try to subordinate every word to be truthful and honest to each character's context.
The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.
I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'
I know how to work with people. I've worked with the same people for 10 years. I'm not that kind of auteur. I hear ideas.
I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.
I think that when we wrestle with death ... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.
Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it.
I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.
I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.
Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.
I think there's nothing wrong with being fixated on superheroes when you are 7 years old, but I think there's a disease in not growing up.
When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.
I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.
The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.
I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.
I respect BMW for not interfering in these projects. They're just trying to support short films with their brand, which I think is great.
Ultimately, with every film I'd done before, there was a reference. They have their own uniqueness, but there was always a precedent.
Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.
I'm overwhelmed by the pain in the world; I'm affected by the news very much, and adding that to my work was becoming a little bit too much.
Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment.
The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.
You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life.
I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.
All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people.
In 'A Confession,' Tolstoy found meaning that he could hold on to, and he lived for another 30 years.
I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing.
I have been very lucky to have final cut in all my films; everything that is wrong in them is my fault.
Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.
For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.
It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world is hate.
Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. When you are by yourself, you have to develop a third eye.
I learned there are ways to approach life. You can never change the events, but you can change the way you approach them.
I always have considered Michael Keaton to be a phenomenal actor because he navigates drama and comedy.