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" 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. "

" Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself. "

" 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. "

" Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go. "

" 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. "

" I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way. "

" If you want to experiment, do something temporary. "

" I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay. "

" I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life. "

" 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 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. "

" My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked. "

" My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire. "

" 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. "

" The reality is that the work I do is not private work. I bring all my secrets, my life, to my work. Anybody who's seen my work knows everything about me. "

" They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that. "

" When you commit to something, you don't want to let your fellow people and yourself down. "

" You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies. "

" You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him. "

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