A lot of people don't know about Cuban history, and I don't expect them to. |
Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in. |
Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself. |
Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go. |
From then on, it was forever looking for a home. But there was never any real fire to make the movie within the system. |
I approach my work musically a lot in terms of the way maybe a jazz musician would approach an improvisation on a theme. |
I could talk about him all day. He's the Mozart of Cuban music, |
I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters. |
I live in a house full of women, dolls and conga drums! |
I still have a leather jacket my brother wore in the '60s. It doesn't fit me, but I figure maybe it'll fit my daughter. |
I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that's success enough already. |
I was a banquet waiter at the Beverly Hilton hotel. You learn a lot when you're in the service industry-the jerks of the world really come to the fore. It's a valuable learning experience to be in the position where you're of service to someone who sometimes doesn't even know you're there. |
I wish we didn't have to tell this story. |
I'll be with it as long as it takes. Certainly, in this business you need a tremendous amount of inner fortitude to be in it for any kind of length of time, and I've already been doing this for twenty years. I'm just going to keep on working on the things that reach me, the things that I want to be associated with and identified with, both as an actor and a filmmaker. |
I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual. |