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Quotes by Mexican Authors
"Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society."
"I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake."
"The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day."
"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."
"I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing."
"In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent."
"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."
"Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much."
"Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror."
"When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight."
"I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays."
"I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now."
"All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo."
"Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings."
"Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters."
"Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game."
"Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days."
"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."
"Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me."
"I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do."
"In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things."
"Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent."
"In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money."
"My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience."
"The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live."
"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."
"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."
"In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old."
"I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians."
"There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them."
"All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects."
"I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead."
"There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile."
"I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays."
"What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism."
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