Being Latina in the US is something I'm learning about everyday. I don't feel inherently different in any way from anybody else and it is a feeling I cherish and that has helped me avoid thinking of my ethnicity as a potential obstacle from what I want to achieve.

In many points in history films and filmmakers have been banned for political reasons- that's how annoying they can be to oppressing systems, how dangerous.

I read a lot on autism, which is surprisingly and annoyingly a huge mystery.

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.

Mexico has relied on television for decades to keep the citizens misinformed and in a constant state of stupor. I mean we live in a time where democracy is almost synonymous with oligarchy.

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

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