Survival often feels like an indignity.

I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.

I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.

For any actor to have Oliver Stone call him or her up… It’s a compliment. He expects you to be on your toes. If you’re not, he pokes at you until you react. He’s very provocative, creatively. It started like a lot of hard work, but it ended up a lot of fun.

When somebody says something I don't agree with, I say I'd rather not. It comes to the point where that is the strongest form of resistance. As a Mexican, it took me a long while to learn one word in English, "no". And that is the one word we have in common.

When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.

When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.