Top 75 Diego Luna Quotes

When I was a teenager, I went on an organised three-day tour of Rome. It was the worst experience ever. I promised myself that I would never travel like that again, with someone telling you what to see and what not to see.

I try to always bring topics to the table that matter, topics that I think need to be discussed and reflected on.

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

I didn’t go to university, and so, every time that I work, I’m looking for a teacher in a way. I’m looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.

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

I connect much more with theatre actors than with cinema actors – insofar as you can speak of ‘cinema actors’ in Mexico, because there isn’t a big film industry.

There’s a lot of freedom to do anything you want in Mexico. It’s just that that freedom belongs to a few. It’s a huge country with a big contrast. There is this big inequality, so those like us that have the chance to do things, we know we are very lucky.

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

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.

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

When I was a kid, if I liked something from merchandising, I’d have to go to the toy store.

To me, war is so far from something I understand.

I can sing ‘Love Me Do,’ very well.

There’s a big debate in the U.S. about immigration reform. We need to reflect on who’s feeding this country today, why this community has been ignored.

For me, the relationship with my father is the most important thing that I have.

I always thought of documentaries as films through which you find your voice as a narrator.

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

Film is a tool of change.

‘Abel’ is about the father I don’t want to be and the boy I used to be.

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.

In film, normally what happens is that not many people work more than once. Normally, it breaks couples. It doesn’t make them.

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.

I think film should raise questions, not give answers. I think film should challenge people to reflect, debate and get by themselves to the answer that fits them.

I want to see movies where I can relate to the guy.

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.

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

I saw ‘A New Hope’ on my Vidamax because I came a little late to the party.

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

Mexico is where I fell in love for the first time; it’s where my family lives… so however much I travel, I inevitably return there.

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

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

Julio Cesar Chavez is the most important sporting figure we have ever had.

The first time I heard the Mars Volta, I had a feeling I was experiencing something that people must have felt when they first heard Led Zeppelin. They have the same kind of power.

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

In Mexico, you need to be a bulldog to make a movie because everything is set up for you to go back home and get depressed and not do the movie.

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 was the happiest kid ever, but I did choose to live around adults and today, now that I have a kid, I don’t know if I would let him do it.

Film can be a tool for change; it can start a debate.

I grew up watching cinema in my country that wasn’t telling stories about us, and we had to find a way to connect, and our references, our role models had nothing to do with us. And I’m so glad that it’s changing.

I’ve got two young children, so holidays are not the same as they used to be. There are now two types: family holidays and holidays you need from that holiday.

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

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.

The life of Cesar Chavez is a story that must be told. He was a man who dedicated his life to accomplishing change in a community that really needed it. He helped a community that was being poorly treated by instilling confidence and providing them with dignity.

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

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.

You exorcise the things that haunt you. That’s one good thing about any artistic discipline.

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.

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

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

As an actor, you are always someone else’s tool. You can have a connection with them, and you can share their point of view, but ultimately, you are helping them reflect.

Boxing is about hunger.

There’s a reality that the market is changing, and the stories of the Latino community need to be out because there’s a huge audience in need of films that would represent them.

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.

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.

I would pretty much like to forget the music that happened to me between the ages of eight and 11, so I’m going to say the first album I bought was the special edition of ‘Dark Side of the Moon.’

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.

I don’t want to do a history lesson. I don’t think cinema should be about that. Cinema should be about emotions.

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.

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

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.

We live in a classist, racist, homophobic society into which we are very assimilated, that’s all. I’m not really proud about that.

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

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 was raised an orphan… My mother died when I was 2 years old.

The first fight I ever saw live was the first Castillo-Corrales match in Las Vegas in 2005.

I’m a terrible dancer.

In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one day to make a story that’s an hour and a half. So you can see the difference in the quality of the project.

When you make a film, it’s because it’s important to you, it means something to you.

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.

All your acts affect all the people, people that you don’t even know. So we have to live with responsibility. We have to live knowing that we’re not the only ones here and you’re affecting somebody else always.

Being at a film festival reminds me of the power of film. The power that we have in our hands. Telling specific stories about personal matters can start the debate that is needed today, and that connect you with realities that you had no idea were connected.