I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a responsibility to those who came before me.

I'm not hooked on cognac, but I've enjoyed it over the years.

Pictures make a lot of money doesn't determine whether the experience was.

I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen.

Fidel Castro claimed that history would absolve him, but it can also condemn him.

My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.

It is necessary for me to express the deep sorrow that I feel for all the Cuban people both inside and outside of Cuba that have suffered the atrocities and repression caused by Fidel Castro and his totalitarian regime.