Gael Garcia Bernal Quotes

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?

I think everybody's had that feeling of sitting in a theater, in a dark room, with other strangers, watching a very powerful film, and they felt that feeling of transformation.

Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

It's one of the things that movies do offer you, despite all of their hardships - they offer you moments of transcendence.

'Ray of Light' changed my life. The whole album, but that song specifically, was just so life-changing and incredible for me.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

It's more than sentimental for me to be working in theater in New York; it's very personal. I think it's a spiritual experience for me.

To transport picturegoers to a unique place in the glare of the earth, in the darkness of the heart - this, you realize with a gasp of joy, is what movies can do.

I'll fully admit that when I went to the movie theater and saw 'Titanic,' I cried afterwards.

You know a movie is good when things that are unreal have gotten into your head, and now your day is not the same.

I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.

In the year of 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening, which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life.

I remember when I got into Juilliard - which was just crazy to me, that I would be studying at a school like that - the choice to cut all my hair off was really symbolic for me.

When I realized that you can actually impact people's lives like that through music, thats an incredible thing.

'Ragtime' was the most magical show that I've done. I had an incredible experience with that, with the show itself, with the cast, with the audience. The response to that show - my God, it really blew me away, the reactions to that show, the way it changed their lives and altered their thinking, their own self-discovery.

One of the greatest things about the theatre is how it can completely change the way you see the world around you. 'Dear Evan Hansen' did this for me.

'Masaan' was a life-changing experience.

Every once in a while, we can touch somebody's life in a way just by writing a melody or writing some music, which is always really special.

That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think.

I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.

Live experiences are more than fundamental - they're transformative.

I've always believed food, like music, has the power to change our day and even shape our world.