Gael Garcia Bernal Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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

  Latin, Believe, Mean

• 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

  Cities, Mexico, Festivals

• 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

  Country, Play, Style

• When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Football, Spiritual, Catalyst For Change

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2006.

• The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Together, Rooms, Film

  "Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna Stage Their Own Revolución". Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2010.

• 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

  Latin, America, Giving

  Guardian interviews at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2006.

• 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

  Groups, Mexico, Film

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2006.

• 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

  Impact, Feelings, Would Be

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2006.

• I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many ways, and I think that I can talk for many people that fiction moves us more than real life, it certainly helps us to set forth on this a journey of a utopia, which can never be achieved.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Real, Moving, Thinking

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