Cuban public is special - they participate, generate a lot of energy, both in a positive and negative sense. It's always an expressive audience.

In Cuba and specifically in Havana there's a sort of energy that turns every situation into something unexpected.

Trips are part of humanity. Emigration is a part of humanity. And it's ever more dynamic due to globalization.

I don't think that the reality of Cuba is perfect, but it doesn't cleave to the negativity, either, with which some people see it.

I think that this necessity to travel, to see, it's part of human nature.

The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.

What is happiness to me is not necessarily for you. Someone once said, there are three truths: your truth, my truth and the truth. And I think that's true.

It's true that in Cuba there are double standards, there's opportunism, and there is a lack of freedom in some ways.

The magic of film isn't just because of the big screen, or the acoustics, but the ineffable shared experience of going to the movies.

The Cuban public is hugely cinephile. It's a shame that most of the movie theaters are so deteriorated. The sense of spectacle has been lost a little, but even so, people continue to go.

In all of my movies I've tried to address the need for man - not just Cubans - to have a dream and to fight for that dream, even when he doesn't achieve it. It's a form of happiness.

But when she looked at Prue tonight, she saw this was not now quite true of her. She was just beginning, just moving, just descending.

You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.

I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask whether your country has been inhaling paint-thinner fumes.

Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't.

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.

Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.

I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.