People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'

It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

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?

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

A lot of people who have immigrated into the United States don't necessarily have bank accounts.

The United States is already Mexico's largest trading partner.