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Quotes by Mexican Authors
"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best."
"I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail."
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
"What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?"
"Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent."
"God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed."
"Everybody really needs to laugh... If you don't laugh, you're not going to live long."
"Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret."
"I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one."
"Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced."
"If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time."
"So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story."
"I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit."
"My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!"
"Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined."
"Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more."
"If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend."
"So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years."
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
"What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek."
"I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."
"Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being."
"When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset."
"I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting."
"I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile."
"I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you."
"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace."
"Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent."
"They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors."
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