I do hope to inspire, I mean I live off inspiration and its the force that keeps me working, that keeps me creating.

Growing up, my Mexican town of Monterrey was so safe, we wouldn't lock our cars or our front doors, and that is gone.

I am a woman and I am from Mexico, that is true. I am an artist, that is also true. When I work, I hope I'm not a woman from Mexico but an artist in body and spirit.

Artists have a tremendous purpose in society, which is to continually expose, to continually challenge and to never stop producing. To never stop creating, no matter what.

To see an older woman play a little boy on stage completely blasted open my perception to what it meant to act. That was it for me.

My parents are big liberals and taught us to never trust a government that rids their people of basic human rights.

Before Internet existed, films were my source of real information from the world.