As a city, it is always compelling. But every day in Mexico City, I give thanks that I am alive.

'Biutiful' is a tough film. It doesn't make concessions to the vulgarity of light entertainment. It's not the kind of film that you see every day in the Cineplex. But as an artist, it's the thing that I needed to do.

I am not a depressive person at all.

I have learned that I am a one-woman man.

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party. When you get to the holidays, if you think that the holidays will be forever, you just take it for granted. But, if you know that you have just three days at the beach, you will be so happy to be there every day.

Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.