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.

If you want to experiment, do something temporary.

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

It's important, when going after a goal, to never lose sight of the integrity of the journey.

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.

I think good chemistry starts with mutual respect.

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

A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

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 wish we didn't have to tell this story.

Only in the world of mathematics do two negatives multiply into a positive.

For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy, freedom.

Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.

The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

Borna virus is not a retrovirus. It doesn't actually insert its own genes into our cells. What it does is just hangs out near our DNA and uses some of the molecular machinery to copy itself.

My message is strong and my belief is strong, in the fact that we can still be provocative and have fun and just get informed.

The different variables involved in anything creative, really, are massive. When it comes together, it just clicks, I suppose.

To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful.

If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders.

My sister is an ER doctor and my brother is a teacher.