Family is something that I grew up with, and the Mexican culture has a lot of, you know - Sunday is the day you spend with your family, and you have ….

There's not enough of those inclusive projects where I feel like I'm interpreting a human being and not just a statistic or a nationality..

I've been transformed by stories, and I think that storytelling is definitely sacred. I take it very seriously because my life has been changed, whet….

Sadly - and I think this is why it's so important that we do this more - I don't have that guiding light. You know, "Oh, that Sleepless in Seattle bi….

The music in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is very much hand-picked specifically because it's our history and our traditions. The themes are u….

This movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is as much for the general market as it is for Latino audiences. That's a really exciting prospect..

Something I was adamant about was that the movie [Everybody Lovess Somebody] wouldn't end with, oh, marriage saved [the main character]. They're marr….

What I do feel with the different scripts that they give me where I feel like this is done for one of those reasons, I share my point of view. I don'….

[Everybody Loves Somebody] was a different take on that immigrant sort of life..

There's a lot of things, even the landscape that we show in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] of Ensenada in Baja is just spectacular. There's so ….

I love that in this movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], you almost want to go and hang out with this family..

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can..

When we see society telling women that they have a certain time, that they make women compete with each other, the older generation competing with th….

I think it's not an easy task because there's not enough Latino writers that are being given opportunities to write things - and I say this because I….

[Rhimes and Pete Nowalk] have definitely, from the pilot [of How to Get Away with Murder], brought forth a woman who is unapologetically herself, una….

[Producers] promised me they wouldn't do that sort of "defining nature of my character is that Laurel is Latina [in How to Get Away with Murder] ." I….

I also have to be careful of what it says about women. I get a lot of scripts that only talk about women's appearances and what they look like. I thi….

I feel that the power that storytelling has to change people, to bring them together, to have that cathartic sort of experience, is something that de….

Mexican food is one of the best culinary experiences that people can have..

The patriarchal society has made women believe, first of all, you're only valid and valuable when you're young..

When I was asked to change Laurel into a Latina for How to Get Away with Murder, I was terrified, because I thought, no one's going to know how to do….