It's a really, really hard life when you don't have a document that actually gives you a name and a face.

People say that the brain is a muscle and that one of the best exercises for any brain is learning another language and to switch from one to another as much as you can. I've found out that when I have trouble regarding any character or any particular scene in English, sometimes I'll switch to Spanish and I'll solve the problem that I've encountered. If I'm working in Spanish and I don't know how to approach certain scenes or certain emotions, or how to say this and that, I just switch to English to try to solve it that way and it works.

I left my parents' home when I was 22, I moved to New York with my ex-girlfriend. We did a film together with Raul Julia.

Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

We need to know the facts, in order to tell the politicians, "Excuse me, I don't want you to use my money on building a wall that is not going to solve any problems. We have to go this direction instead."

When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.

Cinema serves as a constant reminder to us of who we are and what we are made of.