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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.

Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.

If you want to experiment, do something temporary.

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.

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.

Pictures make a lot of money doesn't determine whether the experience was.

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

I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.

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

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.

My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.

I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.

My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.

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.

They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.