Art

“We are breaking with the past, because we cannot accept its hypotheses.”

“The more it’s you, and the more it’s what you love, that’s the most you can do for your audience.”

“Artists yesterday, constructors today.”

“The camera — the film camera — is like the eye of God. I feel I belong there.”

“Hay algo peligroso en la función de teatro que te hace estar con cada célula de tu cuerpo alerta.”

“I want new themes, daring themes.”

“My choice will be to be an artist activist – not an activist artist.”

“Never tell them what you can show them.”

“Tragedy needs a strong storyteller, otherwise it doesn’t exist.”

“So what I can control is the work that I make.”

“I pray for the courage to keep struggling to express in color the substance of what life is directing.”

“A good actor must have an open heart. He must have no walls, no inhibitions.”

“You should know about economics, not tracking shots.”

“I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.”

“If you can paint with a brush, you can paint with words.”

“Every one of my movies is a personal movie.”

“If I could have said it in words, I would have — then I wouldn’t have needed to make the picture.”

“All poems are rash acts.”

“Neither philosophy nor literature. Nothing but a painting.”

“Mi sentimiento es mexicano, mi color es mexicano, mis formas son mexicanas, pero mi concepto es una mezcla.”