I know that [Sunday is the day you spend with your family] is a tradition that I want to keep alive and I also want to share.

The patriarchal society has made women believe, first of all, you're only valid and valuable when you're young.

Mexican food is one of the best culinary experiences that people can have.

Until they hired a Latina to write for Laurel [in How to Get Away with Murder], I was scared that she was going to fall into stereotypes.

Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.

I love that in this movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], you almost want to go and hang out with this family.

The music in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is very much hand-picked specifically because it's our history and our traditions. The themes are universal.

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

I think, especially with this show [How to Get Away with Murder], we have Viola Davis and Pete Nowalk as the showrunner.

[Everybody Loves Somebody] was a different take on that immigrant sort of life.

There's not enough of those inclusive projects where I feel like I'm interpreting a human being and not just a statistic or a nationality.

No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.

There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry.

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.

Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know.

Never buy hardcover books. They are designed to sell to those who don't actually read. Along with books, many other things can be read: natural scenery, love, officialdom, business¡­

The terrain is thinner, the vegetation is greener, that's a good sign we're getting close to the coast.

I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.

The great thing about living today is that there is this thing called the Interweb, and you can just look up anything.

If a man knows what he wants, then he is in a position to decide that he will get it. This is faith. The determined decision of a man with desire.