Gael Garcia Bernal
Gael Garcia Bernal
Gael García Bernalis a Mexican film actor, director, and producer. He founded Canana Films in Mexico City. His is mostly known for his performances in the films Bad Education, The Motorcycle Diaries and Babel. In 2016, Time Magazine named him in the annual Time 100 most influential people list...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth30 November 1978
CountryMexico
Gael Garcia Bernal quotes about
character ideas creating
I love rehearsals and I love creating a character, sticking with it until you have something to tell. It's always different though. Sometimes a director will tell you from day one what they want. Then you throw in your idea.
mexico groups film
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.
country thinking apples
I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.
impact feelings would-be
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.
real moving journey
I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many ways, and I think that I can talk for many people that fiction moves us more than real life, it certainly helps us to set forth on this a journey of a utopia, which can never be achieved.
broken tea four
In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.
jobs acting way
In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.
goal balls next
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.
cities festivals documentary-films
We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico.
latin america giving
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.
mexico found parts-of-life
In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.
directors firsts
Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.
strong sleep knowing
Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?
mean giving decision
Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal.