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“There's a lot of freedom to do anything you want in Mexico. It's just that that freedom belongs to a few. It's a huge country with a big contrast. There is this big inequality, so those like us that have the chance to do things, we know we are very lucky.”
“In film, normally what happens is that not many people work more than once. Normally, it breaks couples. It doesn't make them.”
“Acting is about communicating, reacting, and sharing - and friendship is about all of those things, too.”
“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.”
“You don't want everyone to know everything about you.”
“You have to accept who you are in order to make someone happy and be happy.”
“We live in a classist, racist, homophobic society into which we are very assimilated, that's all. I'm not really proud about that.”
“I definitely promise to always make films about issues that matter to me.”
“'Abel' is about the father I don't want to be and the boy I used to be.”
“I would pretty much like to forget the music that happened to me between the ages of eight and 11, so I'm going to say the first album I bought was the special edition of 'Dark Side of the Moon.'”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“What we have in Mexico and Latin America is a wide diversity of voices, but in Mexico, for example, we haven't been able to get a lot of the movies into theaters.”