Gael García Bernal movie quotes

“I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.'”
Gael García Bernal

“- Miner's Wife (Chile): Why are you traveling?
- Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: We travel just to travel.
- Miner's Wife (Chile): Bless you... Blessed be your travels.”

Vilma M. Verdejo - Miner's Wife (Chile)
Gael García Bernal - Ernesto Guevara de la Serna

“In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.”
Gael García Bernal

“It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.”
Gael García Bernal

“What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two; melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.”
Gael García Bernal - Ernesto Guevara de la Serna

“The goal: to explore a continent we had only known in books.”

Gael García Bernal - Ernesto Guevara de la Serna

“- Alberto Granado: I think there's a young lady interested in dancing with you.
- Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: I should ask her, right?
- Alberto Granado: The bird of youth flies away and doesn't come back, man. Fly, man, fly!”
Rodrigo De la Serna - Alberto Granado
Gael García Bernal - Ernesto Guevara de la Serna

“- Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: All you want is to get laid in every country in South America.
- Alberto Granado: In every town too, if we're lucky. Adds a little spice.”

Gael García Bernal - Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Rodrigo De la Serna - Alberto Granado

“A revolution without guns? It would never work.”
Gael García Bernal - Ernesto Guevara de la Serna

“- Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: We deserve to eat like everyone else.
- Mother Sister Alberto (Peru): Yes, but you didn't go to mass.
- Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: No.
- Mother Sister Alberto (Peru): Then, how do you expect to feed the body if you didn't feed the soul first?”
Gael García Bernal - Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Delfina Paredes - Mother Sister Alberto (Peru)

“- Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: Don't your parents realize that the deeper you bury the diamonds, the more determined the pirate is to take them?
- Chichina Ferreyra: Believe me, this diamond wouldn't mind being taken.”
Gael García Bernal - Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Mía Maestro - Chichina Ferreyra

- Chichina Ferreyra: I'd like for you to stay like this: silent. I want to look at you; I won't see you for a long time. I will wait for you, but don't take forever.
- Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: Define "forever".
Mía Maestro - Chichina Ferreyra
Gael García Bernal - Ernesto Guevara de la Serna

“- Silvia (Peru): Life is pain.
- Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: Yeah, it's pretty screwed up. You gotta fight for every breath and tell death to go to hell.”
Antonella Costa - Silvia (Peru)
Gael García Bernal - Ernesto Guevara de la Serna

“- Alberto Granado: It is rumored that Chilean girls are the most daring on the continent.
- Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: Rumors have no scientific value, Dr. Granado. Time to do some research.”
Rodrigo De la Serna - Alberto Granado
Gael García Bernal - Ernesto Guevara de la Serna

“Wandering around our America has changed me more than I thought. I am not me any more. At least I'm not the same me I was.”

Gael García Bernal - Ernesto Guevara de la Serna

“How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?”
Gael García Bernal - Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Gael García Bernal