What's The Point Of Being An Australian

I Love That Process In Which There Is No Safety Net. Then The Actor Also Can Allow Mistakes, Because There's No Such A Thing As A Mistake. You're Working With Good Actors, That Thing That Starts As A Mistake Becomes Actually The Life Of What Is Going To Follow In The Scene. I Find That It Is Fantastic, And For Me It Is Easier Than For The Actors.

It's A Cliche, But Americans Are Puritanical. In Their Movies, They Are Scared Of Sex, But They Overindulge In Violence. I Could Have Cut A G-rated Version Of 'y Tu Mama Tambien' That Would Have Pleased The American Ratings Board, But It Would Have Been Five Minutes Long.

I Was Not Aware Of How Much I Loved 'canoa' Until I Saw It After Doing 'y Tu Mama Tambien' And Realized That My Voice - Over About The Story's Historical Context - That Narrator - Came From 'canoa'.

I've Been Very Lucky In That The Studios Really Respect Me And They Give Me All My Creative Freedom. But Nevertheless, They Are Inputs, They Have Opinions. It's The Same Thing For Me As If You're In A Shower And You're Coming Up With A Tune, With A Melody, But There Are 70 People Trying To Sing Their Own Melody At The Same Time. So You Have To Focus And Concentrate, And Not Lose The Track Of Your Melody.

Y Tu Mama Tambien' Is One Of The First Unrated Movies To Be Nominated For An Academy Award For Best Original Screenplay. But Many Video Stores Won't Take A Movie That's Not Rated, So I Had To Make The Movie An R.