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Quotes by Mexican Authors
"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."
"Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids."
"Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you."
"For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot."
"Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters."
"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 like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue."
"I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do."
"What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism."
"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."
"My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood."
"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."
"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."
"They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure."
"I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen."
"There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline."
"If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young."
"Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first."
"On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience."
"For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made."
"Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal."
"I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life."
"I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame."
"In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform."
"Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there."
"Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter."
"I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news."
"The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live."
"I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her."
"With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time."
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