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….

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 ….

[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….

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'….

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

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….

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

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….

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

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….

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

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'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….

[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….

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

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….

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….

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….

I think, especially with this show [How to Get Away with Murder], we have Viola Davis and Pete Nowalk as the showrunner..