Cubans joke and satirize everything that life gives them, and I think that's a positive characteristic.

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.

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

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.

There are always consequences to the truth.

She senses your vulnerability, and reassures that every dream you’ve ever whispered in the night, or secret desires you dared not speak, are all within the palm of her hand

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.

I think the audience is truly all ages: I don't put anything in there that kids can't see, or shouldn't see, but I have to keep it interesting for me as an adult

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'

Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?

We be of one blood, ye and I

He treats me like the dirt under my feet.

Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd.