You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.

Some roles have been with me forever

I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.

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

I've played drug dealers, all my life. I've made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence and drugs is portrayed in exaggeration. This is fiction. That is how I looked at it. And, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Just open a newspaper.

When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.

I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.