I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.

It's been great, I have to dig deep for really raw emotions and at the same time I have to use my intellect to say the ridiculous medical jargon while acting and treating a patient and then I have to try to have a personality and emotions as well. So it is definitely hard work.

It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know.

The difficulty of being a Latin kid, a Latin man in this country [U.S].

I did 40 voices for Chris Wedge, the director of the first film, before coming up with the version we used. He was hard to please, I don't know why. I gave him really slow talking voices. then I thought perhaps Sid could be an Indian sounding sloth. To find out more about my character, I watched footage of sloths. I discovered that the food they store in their pouches rots and ferments and half the time they're drunk.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.