Bajo Tauro y Orión

Luis Francisco Espl?:
If you choose to be a bullfighter, you either are among the top ten or you become frustrated. And watching your son dressed as a bullfighter and facing all those risks, but, more than anything, the most pressing risk is that of a young lad who chooses to become a professional in some field and who gets the harshness of the show, because he can never look good enough in the eyes of the public.

Luis Francisco Espl?:
That circle that marked my childhood, I've brought it here, and not only that, but I also brought the axis. The axis was an immense nail my father had, which was pounded in the ground to define the circle and stayed there for more than fifty years. I brought it here, pounded it here and it will remain, I think, the epicentre of the Espl? family.

Luis Francisco Espl?:
To me, the nights were absolutely cinematographic, my memories are completely bound to cinema. The artists who came here, besides the "espa?oladas" which were the funniest things on Earth, and one starts to miss them these days because that was cinema made with scarce resources and fun... but mostly, for me, the nights were those of Rita Hayworth, of Bogart, the famous Tarzan, I was crazy about Dracula nights, in black and white blood looked sad but it was a killer.

Luis Francisco Espl?:
It won't be easy. It won't be easy because the one figure I want to become is practically unattainable, to reach that perfection in bullfighting is impossible and I believe that the bullfighter will always have to swallow that small frustration, all the bullfighters keep inside that frustration when we retire, of not having become the bullfighter that we wanted to be

Alejandro Espl?:
If I were anything like my father it would be amazing as I know that I could get to the top, but I don't want to be like him, I want to have my own personality and there lies the difficulty, there is where you have to find yourself. It is like travelling to Tibet and losing yourself there, all alone, until you manage to find yourself, well the same thing happens with bullfighting. You go to testings, go to training, do bullfighting lounge, and in the end you realize that when you find yourself, you actually have a lot of... I do actually have a lot of my father, I have many things, and while bullfighting there are times when we really are alike, but then there are other times when we are not alike at all, and I believe that that is the beauty of bullfighting, to not be a continuation of... but to be another

Luis Francisco Espl?:
Alejandro has a problem that obviously is going to affect his career, if it doesn't become the one which stops him from thriving in it altogether. Which is that he comes imbued with my own mentality. A mentality which has become extint, which is absolutely antiquated, and he wants to prevail, to leave his mark, and this is almost impossible. It's like bringing the Greek mentality to the 20th century.