I want to see movies where I can relate to the guy.
— Diego Luna
I'm a terrible dancer.
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.
It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.
There's a reality that the market is changing, and the stories of the Latino community need to be out because there's a huge audience in need of films that would represent them.
Before 'Y Tu Mama,' I did 16 movies that only my family got to see because I invited them to the premiere.
It makes no sense that this country has 11 million workers feeding, building this country, making America what it is, and they don't share the same rights of those who are consuming the fruit of their labor.
I was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.
I always wanted to be a futbol player, but I was never good enough.
My father had to play the role of mother and father.
I don't want to do a history lesson. I don't think cinema should be about that. Cinema should be about emotions.
When I was 12, I used to be the best friend of the most beautiful girls, but just the best friend. They would always come to me to cry about a guy who broke their heart, and I would just be sitting there thinking, 'I wish I was the guy and not the best friend.'
Everywhere you look, especially on TV, someone is promising to make you rich and famous.
Becoming a father is the biggest change you go through in life - at least that I've gone through in life.
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.
The first time I heard the Mars Volta, I had a feeling I was experiencing something that people must have felt when they first heard Led Zeppelin. They have the same kind of power.
I grew up watching cinema in my country that wasn't telling stories about us, and we had to find a way to connect, and our references, our role models had nothing to do with us. And I'm so glad that it's changing.
I'm always going to be working on my English, and I'm always going to work on my English so that I can do different characters from different nationalities.
There is no success you can celebrate more than the success of a brother.
My father became completely responsible for my education and for raising me.
No makeup can substitute for faces that have actually been under the sun.
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.
When you make a film, it's because it's important to you, it means something to you.
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.
I always thought of documentaries as films through which you find your voice as a narrator.
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 was six when I started working in theater. I chose to be an adult before I should be.
You don't want everyone to know everything about you.
I can sing 'Love Me Do,' very well.
I hope we see more stories where the heroes are real heroes, real people that don't need weapons or super powers to change people's lives.
Julio Cesar Chavez is the most important sporting figure we have ever had.
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.
Most people are living a life they don't like. They go to work where they don't want to work.
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.
Everyone is different, and so I don't want to repeat anyone else's career. I want to do mine.
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.
Film can be a tool for change; it can start a debate.
My first son was born in Los Angeles; he's a Mexican-American.
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.
Since 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' I started to spend a lot of time in the United States, and my son was born there.
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.
Acting is therapy. It keeps you in contact with your feelings.
I was the happiest kid ever, but I did choose to live around adults and today, now that I have a kid, I don't know if I would let him do it.
I wish parents at the end would think a little bit about how everything we do affects the lives of our kids and defines who they're going to be.
You have to accept who you are in order to make someone happy and be happy.
You don't want to disappoint anybody, but you know, you lose your voice by trying to please everyone.
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.'
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 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.'
We consumers have to send a message every day of what we want and what we don't.
