A part of being an actor is I people watch. I like to observe their behaviour, watch their reactions on the street and see how they talk to each other, and that's impossible when they are looking back at you. I used to enjoy taking the train and watching people in their own minds, struggling with themselves.

I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.

All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.

Celebrity is very weird.

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.

I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.

This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it cant be.