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In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

~Gael Garcia Bernal

Topics: America Around Bit End English Favor Language Latin Latin America Limitation Limited Little Little Bit More Second Speak Things Up Use Wanting Why Work Yes

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I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

~Gael Garcia Bernal

Topics: Belonged Clique Few Film-Making Films Group Know Made Mexico Specific Started Them Until Very Wanted

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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

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I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.

~Gael Garcia Bernal

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When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.

~Gael Garcia Bernal

Topics: Before Catalyst Change Cinema Experience Film Football Football Match Good Important Important Things Incredibly Life Lived Match Maybe Most Never Only Person Spiritual The Most Important Things Well Witness You

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I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.

~Gael Garcia Bernal

Topics: Acting Cared Career Career Path Challenging Film Find Idea Interesting Love Love Is Me Might Money Never Only Path Roles Stories Take Where

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I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

~Gael Garcia Bernal

Topics: Act Actor Brought Every Faith Great Little Mexican Paid Part People Respect Take Then Up Very Way Where You

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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.

~Gael Garcia Bernal

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Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?

~Gael Garcia Bernal

Topics: Completed Country Draw Encounters Generalization Half Know Made Mean Mixed Own Place Really States Territory Texas United United States Up You

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Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.

~Gael Garcia Bernal

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Biography

Nationality: Mexican

Type: Actor

Born: November 30th, 1978

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