[on his experience in the Catholic boarding school he lived in as a young man and on which Mala educación, La (2004) is based] The education we received was about guilt, sin, punishment.
[on why it took ten years to finish the script for Mala educación, La (2004)] [It] deals with my own biography . . . it took time to remove myself from it. Now it`s not me. I changed the tone of the story, but the main situation is the same.
In the last decade you can count the number of Hollywood dramas that have revolved around women. The studios have forgotten that women are fascinating.
I do remember having extreme physical fear of the priests. One of the things we had to do was kiss the priest`s hand, which I found revolting. The notorious abuser, who eventually had to leave, had this harem of about 20 boys.
Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
