Quotes from Diego Luna

My mother died when I was two years old; that's why I have so many daddy issues. And that's why my relationship with my dad is so strong.

I'm a terrible dancer.

Before 'Y Tu Mama,' I did 16 movies that only my family got to see because I invited them to the premiere.

I wish parents at the end would think a little bit about how everything we do affects the lives of our kids and defines who they're going to be.

In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an audience, and you're in control, and every night is different depending on you and the relationship with the other actors. It's as simple as that.

I'm always going to be working on my English, and I'm always going to work on my English so that I can do different characters from different nationalities.

As producers, we choose who to work with and what films to get involved with. There's no rule, but it has to come from an honest place. It has to come from a necessity.

Definitely directing is the thing I like the most because this is where everything you know can be used. It's the most personal process ever. It's the most demanding one, but again, rewarding.

To me, directing movies is just that. It's a need to question myself and set the things that disturb me on the table.

I definitely promise to always make films about issues that matter to me.

Everywhere you look, especially on TV, someone is promising to make you rich and famous.

Directors should be paid for promising impossible things.

I hate fights. I try to talk people out of fighting if I can and if they start I run away.

What we have in Mexico and Latin America is a wide diversity of voices, but in Mexico, for example, we haven't been able to get a lot of the movies into theaters.

It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

My father became completely responsible for my education and for raising me.

When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me.

Acting is therapy. It keeps you in contact with your feelings.

Acting is about communicating, reacting, and sharing - and friendship is about all of those things, too.

If we put our differences aside, we can do great things.

I always wondered why there weren't any films about Cesar Chavez. There are movies about other civil rights leaders in this country, but why not Chavez?

Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.

You see Mexican cinema in festivals throughout the world, and you see Mexican directors getting recognized at Cannes, at the Oscars, in Berlin, but the question is, What is the end result of that in terms of the market? That's where it's lacking.