Diego Luna

“In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one day to make a story that's an hour and a half. So you can see the difference in the quality of the project.”

“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.”

“I always thought of documentaries as films through which you find your voice as a narrator.”

“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.'”

“Many times when you're a tourist you can just stay on the surface and not really experience the place you're visiting, which will probably leave you disappointed. Everywhere has something interesting; it's just about being curious enough to find it and scratch where you have to scratch and stay longer and walk further.”

“I started to work when I was really young. For me, friendship is work, and work is friendship. Those who are next to me and that have been there for a long time are those who can work with me, play football with me, and go watch a film with me.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We have to accept the world has become this place where we have to interact with people who are very different from us.”

“We consumers have to send a message every day of what we want and what we don't.”

“Sometimes as a boy, you really want to feel older and mature.”

“It's tough to say where I live. There are some bills that get to the house in L.A., some to the house in Mexico, and some to the house of my father - so I never lose track of those.”

“The first fight I ever saw live was the first Castillo-Corrales match in Las Vegas in 2005.”

“I always wanted to be a futbol player, but I was never good enough.”

“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.”

“Directors should be paid for promising impossible things.”

“As consumers, we are making choices,and we allow things to exist, and we celebrate the existence of things. And we can also boycott those things we don't want to be part of.”

“When you make a film, it's because it's important to you, it means something to you.”

“To me, war is so far from something I understand.”

“My father had to play the role of mother and father.”