Quotes from Diego Luna

Sometimes as a boy, you really want to feel older and mature.

When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.

Many times when you're a tourist you can just stay on the surface and not really experience the place you're visiting, which will probably leave you disappointed. Everywhere has something interesting; it's just about being curious enough to find it and scratch where you have to scratch and stay longer and walk further.

You don't want to disappoint anybody, but you know, you lose your voice by trying to please everyone.

You have to accept who you are in order to make someone happy and be happy.

I've gone across that border many times. My son was born in the United States; he is also a Mexican-American with the two passports.

No makeup can substitute for faces that have actually been under the sun.

My dad was a theater designer, and I spent a lot of time hanging around the dressing room listening to whatever the actors were listening to, which is where I heard Pink Floyd for the first time.

With many things in life, you're there because there's a cute girl around that you want to go out with, and you end up finding magic. You end up not caring about the girl but wanting to stay there because of what you found. That happened with 'Amarcord' to me.

Many of my favourite hotels are in London. I like the Covent Garden Hotel and I stayed at Blakes last time I was in London. I like the feeling of warmth and homeliness that you get from both of those places.

I've always wanted to be a part of the 'Star Wars' world; the films were very important to me. All my older cousins were huge fans, and I wanted to belong to that community.

There is no success you can celebrate more than the success of a brother.

I was six when I started working in theater. I chose to be an adult before I should be.

I enjoy working with actors so much and having the chance to be surprised by them.

My father had to play the role of mother and father.

I started to work when I was really young. For me, friendship is work, and work is friendship. Those who are next to me and that have been there for a long time are those who can work with me, play football with me, and go watch a film with me.

As an actor, you have to believe in the point of view of a director; as a director, you have to be able to express what your point of view is and invite everybody to join you on that journey. So it's always about opening up.

I don't make films for myself; I make them in order to communicate with an audience.

The beauty of football is that it's about 11, and another five, at least, are sitting outside. You cannot get competitive.

I don't want to come and conquer American films or the American market. I just want to do movies that I care about, stories that I like.

I hope we see more stories where the heroes are real heroes, real people that don't need weapons or super powers to change people's lives.

As consumers, we are making choices,and we allow things to exist, and we celebrate the existence of things. And we can also boycott those things we don't want to be part of.

We consumers have to send a message every day of what we want and what we don't.

I would say doing film is all about trust and conviction. It's about believing in an idea.