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Quotes by Mexican Authors
"I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion."
"There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival."
"No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids."
"But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling."
"I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen."
"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."
"Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think."
"In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old."
"I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing."
"The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold."
"And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life."
"All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects."
"Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?"
"I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it."
"For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot."
"It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor."
"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."
"We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux."
"The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good."
"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."
"I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love."
"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."
"You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring."
"If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom."
"Globalization is a fact of economic life."
"First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I mean, that's normal. I understand that. I don't quarrel with that."
"Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico."
"When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly."
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