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It's impossible for everybody to be in sync, even the most proper family.


If you want to experiment, do something temporary.


It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.


Everybody has a dream, and everybody knows people who have a dream that they don't want to share with anybody because they're too embarrassed to share.


I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a responsibility to those who came before me.


My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.


Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.


I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.


I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.


If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.


I wish we didn't have to tell this story.


Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.


My son loves my carbonara. I've tried to master that recipe - it's very simple but very delicate. Once prepared it must be eaten quickly.


When you explore a scene, the most important thing is who to cast.


Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.


I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.


I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that's success enough already.


I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen.


There's good movies and there's bad movies. The genres are never dead, it's just about how to apply them and articulate them and execute them - the story, the quality of the writing, the acting, the design elements, the directorial execution - all these things make it what it is.


She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in her current state. It's the point of view of all exiles - you have to leave the thing you cherish most.