Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Just
Together
Struggle
Related Quotes:
" Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
You
Time
Feel
" 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. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Mexico
Made
Know
" 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
Sleep
Strong
Live
" In Mexico, audiences want to see a big discussion around a film - what we expect from Hollywood films worldwide is more of an entertaining show. 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' was a road movie and comedy, but it had a very strong political connotation that sparked a discussion in Mexico that is still going on. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Want
Comedy
Political
" I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Then
Want
Now And Then
" In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
You
Work
Life
" It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Goals
Easy
Place
" I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Crazy
People
Know
" 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. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Always
Thought
Up
" Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Specific
Language
Concept
" I think the best thing I can say about it - and I think the best thing you can say about anything, really - is that 'The Motorcycle Diaries' made me feel like my home was bigger; it made me feel at home anywhere in Latin America. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Motorcycle
Home
America
" 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
Experience
Rich
People
" I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Play
Me
Flow
" 'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Life
Simple
Yourself
" You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Be Happy
Happy
Place
" Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
He
Great
First
" There's no such thing as a specific authenticity to what Mexico is, because Mexico is incredibly complex and varied, and the food is completely different if you travel 50 kilometers. It just changes all the time. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
You
Travel
Time
" In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Drama
School
Me
" I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?' "
Gael Garcia Bernal
End
Up
Doing
" Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know? "
Gael Garcia Bernal
You
Country
Texas
" The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Die
Together
Moment
" 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
Perspective
Democracy
Real
" In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Latin America
Money
You
" As actors, we don't shy away from saying, 'I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to meet girls.' Directors cannot say the same thing. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Actor
Say
Shy
" Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Diet
Changes
Food
" Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Democracy
Every Day
Six
" I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Know
Time
Myself
" 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
People
Language
Empathy
" Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Motivation
Better
Understand
" In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Knowledge
You
Beautiful