A lot of people don't realize the roots of Batman are really Latino. They don't go back to the bat god, the ones the Mayans had - they had one that w…

- Luis Valdez

When you start at the beginning of your career [that] was really focused on your own needs and obstacles, and ultimately you realize you're not reall…

- Luis Valdez

A lot of the public responses are based on the prejudices and ignorance, they've been inherited from previous generations. California has always been…

- Luis Valdez

It comes out of human beings, it comes from the dark side of the human being, when people don't give a hoot about other people and they'll steal and …

- Luis Valdez

It's absolutely essential for every generation to capture that social responsibility. Injustice grows like weeds. The injustices of the world are lik…

- Luis Valdez

The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.

- Luis Valdez

I believe in entertainment. I love entertainment. But I love it with a purpose. I want people to come out thinking about what they saw, and perhaps r…

- Luis Valdez

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

- Luis Valdez