Zitat des Tages von Diego Luna:
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.
I saw 'A New Hope' on my Vidamax because I came a little late to the party.
I can sing 'Love Me Do,' very well.
I've gone across that border many times. My son was born in the United States; he is also a Mexican-American with the two passports.
Sometimes as a boy, you really want to feel older and mature.
Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.
Julio Cesar Chavez is the most important sporting figure we have ever had.
For me, the relationship with my father is the most important thing that I have.
We consumers have to send a message every day of what we want and what we don't.
I don't have this feeling like, 'Oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here.' I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about.
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.
We have to accept the world has become this place where we have to interact with people who are very different from us.
All your acts affect all the people, people that you don't even know. So we have to live with responsibility. We have to live knowing that we're not the only ones here and you're affecting somebody else always.
The nice thing about my job is that it allows me to look deeper into issues and then tell stories with that information.
I think film should raise questions, not give answers. I think film should challenge people to reflect, debate and get by themselves to the answer that fits them.
Acting is therapy. It keeps you in contact with your feelings.
You don't want everyone to know everything about you.
I want to see movies where I can relate to the guy.
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.
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.
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 don't make films for myself; I make them in order to communicate with an audience.
It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.
'Abel' is about the father I don't want to be and the boy I used to be.
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.
I was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.
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.
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.'
Everywhere you look, especially on TV, someone is promising to make you rich and famous.
When you make a film, it's because it's important to you, it means something to you.
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.
Before 'Y Tu Mama,' I did 16 movies that only my family got to see because I invited them to the premiere.
Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.
Most people are living a life they don't like. They go to work where they don't want to work.
Directors should be paid for promising impossible things.
When I was young, football and theatre were the only places I was happy. I remember school as just what happened in between the things that I liked.
