'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem.
'Amores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident.
'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.
'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.
'Ikiru' is existential but with a lot of tenderness.
'Russian Ark,' I adore - I almost cried at the end of that film, it's so beautiful.
3D is the way we experience life.
Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.
Antonio Sanchez is from Mexico City. I met him at a Pat Metheny concert. He did a solo, and I thought, 'This is an octopus man!'
As a city, it is always compelling. But every day in Mexico City, I give thanks that I am alive.
As the camera, I try to subordinate every word to be truthful and honest to each character's context.
Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment.
Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves.
Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.
Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.
It's harder to make real audio than special effects audio.
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.
Millions of Mexicans leave their kids in order to take care of other kids. That's a very painful thing.
I can be unbearable sometimes asking for so many takes.
If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.
I'm usually very critical of myself.
It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world The most horrible disease in the world is hate.
I learned there are ways to approach life. You can never change the events, but you can change the way you approach them.
The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.
That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.
The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial.
I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.
I think films are bigger than structure.
