I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.

There's something about the Oscar that gives you sort of stripes where you feel you can dare to walk into a studio like Universal and say, "Hey guys, how about an idea of me playing the wolf man?"

Some roles have been with me forever

There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.

My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.