"I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique."

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Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2006.

Gael Garcia Bernal

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“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.”
“And Garrison Keillor I think is a fascinating guy and really entertaining.”
“Dreams can be any size you want them to be. But the important thing is that you have one that is yours.”

Source : Martin Pistorius (2011). “Ghost Boy”, p.110, Simon and Schuster
“That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.”
“It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it, may forget their obligations to their constituents, and prove unfaithful to their important trust.”
“Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.”
“I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left.”
“You must know everything well before you can know what to discard. You must cover pages with material you will not finally put into the book. That doesnâ€™t mean you donâ€™t use it. It is still there, must be there, an invisible foundation which gives authority to the story. The planning done on setting is never wasted. Nothing is ever wasted. If it has been thought through and written, it is still there, in every word which does not mention it.”

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