It Is Quite Common To Meet People

I Was Asked To Go To Cannes To Present Amores Perros. And Little Did I Know That This Film Would Be Huge. I Saw It For The First Time In Cannes, And It Was The First Time I'd Seen Myself On Such A Big Screen. And It Had A Huge Impact On Me - It Was The Strangest Feeling.

I Asked The Producers When I Was Doing 'y Tu Mama Tambien' If They Could Give Me A Vhs Recording Of The Film That I Could Show To My Family, Because In Mexico And Latin America, When You Do A Film, You Don't Expect Anybody To See It, Especially Not In The Cinema.

We Think That Democracy Can Change A Lot Of Things, But We're Being Fooled, Because Democracy Is Not The Election. We've Been Taught That Democracy Is Having Elections. And It Isn't. Elections Are The Most Horrendous Aspect Of Democracy. It's The Most Mundane, Trivial, Disappointing, Dirty Aspect.

It Is Quite Common To Meet People That Live A Few Kilometers Away From Mexico And That Have Never Been There.

I Was Little There Were Times I Wanted My Parents To Be Normal. I Wanted Them To Have A Religion. I Wanted Them To Have A Job, Like The Parents Of Every Other Kid I Went To School With.