Tambien Quotes

#1. 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.

Alfonso Cuaron

#2. I saw 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' with my mom. It was really awkward.

Stephanie Sigman

#3. It's a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could have cut a G-rated version of 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' that would have pleased the American ratings board, but it would have been five minutes long.

Alfonso Cuaron

#4. On 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' we started exploring shots that are longer, where the camera is moving around the actors, and there are no cuts, and you feel like you're there.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#5. In Mexico, audiences want to see a big discussion around a film - what we expect from Hollywood films worldwide is more of an entertaining show. 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' was a road movie and comedy, but it had a very strong political connotation that sparked a discussion in Mexico that is still going on.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#6. I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#7. I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.

Alfonso Cuaron

#8. I was able to shoot a movie like 'Tree of Life' because I had done 'Y Tu Mama Tambien.' The camera needed to capture that sense of freedom and joy and life you have when you're young.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#9. Did you pull rank?" "On a chief warrant officer?" They'd reached the link, and he slapped the call button. "Do I look suicidal?

Tanya Huff

#10. Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#11. Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.

Simon Bolivar

#12. When I got to Broadway, I conducted five Broadway shows.

David Friedman

#13. Any plan where you lose your hat is a bad plan.

Phil Foglio

#14. History is a loop. We're exactly where they stood twenty years ago. What's theirs is ours, what's ours will become theirs.

Sarah Addison Allen

#15. The author says our prayers are misdirected when we ask God that He help us to love Him more. If we pray to him more, we will love Him more.

Jen Pollock Michel

#16. Remember not to forget the dying colors of yesterday
As you inhale tomorrow's hot dream, blown from frozen lips.
Remember, you naked agent of every nothing.

Bob Kaufman

#17. If the apocalypse comes...beep me!

Joss Whedon

#18. You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.

Joseph Campbell

#19. I smile and blush, and weave my way back through the dog room to the lobby and into the cat room, because when a boy with two kittens says he loves you, you do whatever you can to get to him as quickly as possible.

Lisa McMann