Gael Garcia Bernal Quotes

I like to believe that intimate moments between characters don't need to be relegated to independent films.

I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.

What I keep searching for in movies, more and more, is the right gravity.

I don't like message movies either.

I am such a tomboy. I grew up fighting with boys, mainly - beating up boys, actually.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

Normally, an actress has to work to bring out her male side. In our case, the dynamic is reversed. The actor playing her modelled himself on Sharon Stone.

I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.

When you boil it down, most movies are message movies. And I think careers are made in message movies.

Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.

Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.

I love gritty drama. I'm passionate about films and drama that make you think - hard-hitting, gravelly characters.

I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.

Aggression is part of the masculine design, we are hardwired for it.... Little girls do not invent games where large numbers of people die, where bloodshed is a prerequisite for having fun. Hockey, for example, was not a feminine creation. Nor was boxing. A boy wants to attack something -- and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee.

All male roles are written in a way where you just hide what's going on inside you, and all female roles are written in a way where they expose everything.

Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted.

There was a time during 'Gone Girl' that I'd come home, and I'd say, 'I get to be every part of being a woman in this role.' For me, I feel it much more as a springboard for the work I'm going to take on thereafter.

I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.

The kinds of films that I'm used to doing are independent films. They're very small character-driven pieces, and there isn't as much spectacle involved.

All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage.

When we create female characters, I think often there is a tendency to kind of make female characters emotionally bulletproof.

I don't consider myself a political artist, but I am political just by nature of being a woman.

That's my main complaint with Murakami: that he writes these complex males and then really static women.