I actually love actors.

- Lourdes Portillo

I'm doing a lot of research right now on what's happening in Arizona. That's where I'm at with more conventional documentary filmmaking. I think it i…

- Lourdes Portillo

I received a phone call from my mother, and it was so complicated and involved, and it reminded me of just how it is in a family, and how it is in Me…

- Lourdes Portillo

My McQueen particularly was hard to make, because my father was dying. I see it, and I see my confusion, my pain, my everything. I thought that it wa…

- Lourdes Portillo

I looked to many, many filmmakers. I was influenced by the Neo-Realists, and by the Cuban, and the Latin American cinema, the '70s, European experime…

- Lourdes Portillo

Even though I make documentaries, everyone's acting in a way. Really. And you're creating, and you're confabulating things. You can't relive reality,…

- Lourdes Portillo

I'm making a kind of a memoir of certain aspects and times in my life. Now that I'm older I can look back and analyze some things, and see the root o…

- Lourdes Portillo

I've done experimental work, I've done real conventional documentaries that were very successful, like Las Madres that was nominated for an Academy A…

- Lourdes Portillo

My films have to do with justice and many, many other concerns. That's the sad part of coming from my generation, and having been boxed in by those w…

- Lourdes Portillo