I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want ….

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 oppo….

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

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..

Cachao is obviously Cuban. He's known for traditional Cuban music and that's the music that I'm most passionate about. Cachao is one of the greatest ….

It is necessary for me to express the deep sorrow that I feel for all the Cuban people both inside and outside of Cuba that have suffered the atrocit….

I'm a fan of Ernest Hemingway work and specifically The Old Man and the Sea. I researched the relationship he had with the captain of his boat for 20….

I'm not worried about walking the streets and looking over my shoulder because of something I might have said..

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. B….

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 chang….

The promises of Fidel Castro's so-called revolution of pluralism and democracy, were and continue to be a false promise and a betrayal of all basic h….

I knew a gentleman that I had worked with over the years, who is no longer with us, and was a great influence in my life named Cachao - a Cuban music….

The size of budgets does not alter my decision if I should do it. If there's a movie with a budget of only $1 million that I find interesting, then I….

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..

I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual..

The executions, persecution and imprisonment of political dissidents and the LGBT community, denial of free press, elections and religious freedoms, ….

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 develo….

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

I pray for what I have always prayed for: the restoration of our constitution and absolute freedom for the people of Cuba. That dream is very much al….

I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a responsibility to those who c….

I love doing voice-overs; I wish I could do more of them. It's a lot of fun to see how they take the voice and animate it and try to capture your own….