No amount of success - whatever that means, quote-unquote success - no amount of success replaces the reality of being separated from my family for this long.

No amount of success - whatever that means, quote-unquote success - no amount of success replaces the reality of being separated from my family for this long.

A broken immigration system means broken families means broken lives. That's what is at stake.

The greatest gift that we have as human beings is our ability to empathize. That's why I think personal stories matter so much. That's someone's mom. That's someone's daughter. That's someone's son.

Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here.

I have no control over what people call me. The only thing I have control over is my work, and that's really all I can be judged on.

There's always to me a universality - one of the things I learned early on as a journalist and a writer is that there's a universality in specifics. The more specific you get, the more universal it can be.