I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.

Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.

I did my first movie, "The Mambo Kings," in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna.

I am not an action hero. That is not the only thing I did in my career. Many people know me because of my work with Pedro Almodóvar, or theater or films that I have done, aside from that. But, that was a part of my career that I embrace. I loved movies like Zorro and Desperado and The 13th Warrior, and other movies like that, that I have done and that contain some action, but it's not the only thing that I do.

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.