Gael Garcia Bernal

There is something about the live performance of an orchestra that makes it very different to a film. With a film, you…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.

— Gael Garcia Bernal

I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations.

— Gael Garcia Bernal

There's no such thing as a specific authenticity to what Mexico is, because Mexico is incredibly complex and varied, and the food…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge.…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

A love relationship has always been shaped by the context and times we live in.

— Gael Garcia Bernal

I grew up with a lot of exiles from Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia - I grew up with them, and…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

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…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

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

— Gael Garcia Bernal

A boxing workout is the heaviest thing, but it's the best. The worst part is that boxing gyms are the smelliest things…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

Bringing a baby into the world is not like grilling enchiladas. It's a difficult thing.

— Gael Garcia Bernal

I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.

— Gael Garcia Bernal

I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.

— Gael Garcia Bernal

Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.

— Gael Garcia Bernal

Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

I love rehearsals and I love creating a character, sticking with it until you have something to tell. It's always different though.…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and…

— Gael Garcia Bernal