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“I started tweeting with the first film I directed. I found it the best way to promote it and to connect to the audience, and since then, it's been very helpful.”
“In Mexico, you need to be a bulldog to make a movie because everything is set up for you to go back home and get depressed and not do the movie.”
“There's a big debate in the U.S. about immigration reform. We need to reflect on who's feeding this country today, why this community has been ignored.”
“If your neighbor's reality changes, yours will change as well.”
“It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.”
“Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.”
“Julio Cesar Chavez is the most important sporting figure we have ever had.”
“Definitely directing is the thing I like the most because this is where everything you know can be used. It's the most personal process ever. It's the most demanding one, but again, rewarding.”
“Many of my favourite hotels are in London. I like the Covent Garden Hotel and I stayed at Blakes last time I was in London. I like the feeling of warmth and homeliness that you get from both of those places.”
“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.”
“Being at a film festival reminds me of the power of film. The power that we have in our hands. Telling specific stories about personal matters can start the debate that is needed today, and that connect you with realities that you had no idea were connected.”
“I don't want to come and conquer American films or the American market. I just want to do movies that I care about, stories that I like.”
“Boxing is about hunger.”
“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.”
“When we started CANANA, I wasn't married, so I guess I was married to the idea of CANANA.”
“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.”
“The life of Cesar Chavez is a story that must be told. He was a man who dedicated his life to accomplishing change in a community that really needed it. He helped a community that was being poorly treated by instilling confidence and providing them with dignity.”
“Audiences want to feel represented, want to be able to empathize with the characters and the stories they are seeing on the screen.”
“I don't want to do a history lesson. I don't think cinema should be about that. Cinema should be about emotions.”
“If we put our differences aside, we can do great things.”