Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.

I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it to people you know, trying to make sure that the mathematics of the story work, you feel that those are in place, and the actual writing and final draft doesn't take as long.

Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age.

When I go into a pitch room and I'm pitching something with a writing partner, everybody tends to look at the guy, even if I'm doing a lot of the talking.

Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.