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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

#anybody #asked #because #cinema #could

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

#clique #few #film-making #films #group

In a comedy, after the day is done, you can figure out ways of how to make it even funnier for the next day. In dramas, it's very different - the mindset that you're in. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#comedy #day #different #done #dramas

It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#act #also #ball #come #direct

Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#basic #brought #changes #coast #dialects

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#extend #images #impulse #limit #memory

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#about #almost #become #consulting #corporations

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. ↗

— Claude Bernard

#experimentation #observation #passive #science

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#always #cannot #except #ideal #incessant

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#appearance #exaggerate #hamlet #his #king