I felt really strongly about this script [ Everybody Loves Somebody] because, like you said, it's a very specific way of life.

People follow my movies for a reason, and that's because I believe in them, and I don't want to just make movies for the sake of making movies.

All the products that are sold to us - those anti-aging products - are telling us that there's a due date.

Wisdom and white hair might not be as valued [in our society] as in different cultures.

I hope that we start trendsetting [with Everybody Loves Somebody], you know, like having bigger movies also include that. Because I think it'll definitely change a lot of what's going on right now.

I knew that [director/screenwriter] Catalina Aguilar Mastretta had an amazing take on the female psyche and the modern woman and the modern immigrant woman living in the U.S., and I really saw the need for a story told of our daily lives without being a statistic and without just trying to hit a demographic, and I felt that with this one.

What I do feel with the different scripts that they give me where I feel like this is done for one of those reasons, I share my point of view. I don't just say, "No, thank you." I say, "I feel that this represents Latinos in a wrong way, in a bad way."