Jonathan Jakubowicz Quotes (10 Quotes)

Bob Weinstein (formerly of Miramax) saw it during the Los Angeles International Film Festival on a Saturday, and by Monday he had already bought the distribution rights.

It changed my life, ... I was 45 minutes on the edge of dying. You start to value every single moment and see reality as a blessing.

Secuestro Express' has developed not only as a crime to obtain money but also as a way of social revenge.

In the end of the film there is hope, ... There's beauty in ugliness. It's really important for us Latinos to acknowledge each other and not deny the reality, because our reality is fascinating.

This movie came as a reaction to reality. I realized that I do not know that 80 of the population that lives poor in my city. I wanted to make a social experiment putting in the same car several people from different social classes, just to see what would happen.

I don't think the rich or the poor are to blame, ... I think we are all to blame.

I realized that the elite - and I'm from that class - don't have any idea about how most of the people in Venezuela live. This taught me a lot about my own city.

The film is 100 percent Venezuelan-funded, ... We made the film at a time when the nation was in a civil war and there was a two-month oil strike. The nation stopped working.

I couldn't pay them that much, ... but they knew we were going to create something good and important for the nation.

either we communicate with each other or we destroy each other. If we do not help that 80 of the population in poverty, nobody will live a human life.