When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.

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.

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'

Imagine the situation between Israel and Palestine. It's such a big mess. You can be on one side or the other. But what's clear is that there's an urgent need for a solution there and that's been dragging on for so long.