- His top ten films of all time are: The Young and the Damned (1950), Sansho the Bailiff (1954), A Man Escaped (1956), The Executioner (1963), Persona (1966), Andrei Rublev (1966), Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), Mother and Son (1997), Gummo (1997) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000).
- Played rugby for the Mexican national team.
- Studied law.
- Martin Scorsese called Reygadas' Silent Light (2007) "A surprising picture, and a very moving one as well.".
- Worked for the Mexican foreign service in Brussels.
- Member of the 'Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' (AMPAS) since 2016.
- Retrospective at the 12th New Horizons Film Festival (2012).
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