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" Comedy requires a lot of energy. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

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" Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" I'm never going to be able to leave Mexico, really. It would be foolish of me to do it. I would be wasting such a great opportunity that the accident of life, or destiny, gave me, which is to be Mexican. If we would make 'Lord of the Rings' analogies, I think Mexico City is Middle-earth. That's where the fight of humanity is. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" In a comedy, after the day is done, you can figure out ways of how to make it even funnier for the next day. In dramas, it's very different - the mindset that you're in. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" If anybody is interested in listening to good modern music, I would recommend Jim Fassett, 'Symphony of the Birds.' It's really beautiful... with real birds. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" 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. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" Los Cabos has been an amalgam of many cultures that have been coming here. There have been beautiful Jesuit missions for example, in many places around this area. The towns are incredible. But there is a very strong Mexicanized culture here that exists because people from different parts of Mexico have come to live here. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" 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? "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" There is something about the live performance of an orchestra that makes it very different to a film. With a film, you can rewrite it in a way with the material you have, and in rehearsals, you're really trying out different things. In an orchestra, you can't do that. They separate as soon as the performance factor comes into play. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it. "

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