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.

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 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.

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.

The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.

What I really found was that the one similarity between Covert Affairs and Fair Game is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.

Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).

Empathy before education.

My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

It takes more than industry to industrialize.

You got to do more than just live in the country to be a Farmer.