A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.
Success is a very scary thing especially after you choose something and everything starts coming at you. It's absolutely frightening because the mind does things. It says, 'You've got to hold on to this or get away from this.
You've got to admit failure sometimes.
One thing we forget about Hispanics is that they're family-unit-oriented as a culture. So it's not all wild Mexican gangs out there, as is rumored.
Our educational system now teaches every kid the same thing. It's like rubber stamping!
This is a service station, we offer service. There is no higher purpose.
You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit. But going through life, you discover these deep, dark things in yourself that you can’t run away from, so you have to learn to embrace them. I mean, the difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I’m capable.
Even though I play guitar, I don't do it publicly.
People are not theirs thoughts, they think they are, and it brings them all kinds of sadness.
I don't see myself stopping, even though it gets harder and harder. Especially when you find out that you can't really compromise because of age.
I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.
If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.
In fact, a child is not even considered a human being.
Just because your wife schmoozes with somebody too much, you can't go throwing the kids out with the bath water! And that's the way the law's tied up right now.
I'm not much of a song-and-dance man.
Maybe there was a time that you could count on the American home as being the moral fabric center and that they would teach you right, but with the liberty of just divorcing without a thought, it's horrible.
Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.
When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.
Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.
Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.
If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.
The corn that is B something 5 corn thats been genetically altered in the United States, it cant reproduce but it has huge kernels, its very sweet and its wonderful but the winds have blown this across into Mexico. And so the Mexican corn is being infected with the inability to reproduce.
I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.
