The promises of Fidel Castro's so-called revolution of pluralism and democracy, were and continue to be a false promise and a betrayal of all basic human rights.

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that's success enough already.

I'm a fan of Ernest Hemingway work and specifically The Old Man and the Sea. I researched the relationship he had with the captain of his boat for 20 years, Gregorio Fuentes, and that inspired me to write a screenplay about it.

I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.

Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.