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" 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
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" We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Change
Think
Most
" I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
You
Cinema
Doing
" The whole Baja California peninsula is an energetic place, and it's incredibly alive. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
California
Alive
Energetic
" 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
Original
Mexico
Film
" 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
" You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Be Happy
Happy
Place
" 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
" Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Style
You
Story
" 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
" Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Used
Democracy
Flaws
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say 'we,' I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Sleeping
Nature
World
" I grew up with a lot of exiles from Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia - I grew up with them, and I gained a family; I gained friends. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Friends
Family
Up
" 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
" 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
" 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
Play
Live
Trying
" 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
Whatever
Working
Mom
" In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Latin America
Money
You
" 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
Culture
Live
People
" 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
" Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Democracy
Every Day
Six
" 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
Music
Nothing
You
" 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
" My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
Child
She
Parents
" 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
My Life
Life
Work
" 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 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