The patriarchal society has made women believe, first of all, you're only valid and valuable when you're young.

This movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is as much for the general market as it is for Latino audiences. That's a really exciting prospect.

Romantic comedies, if done badly, can be catastrophic.

I would get very frustrated reading scripts that were bilingual but maybe not bicultural.

I think Shonda Rhimes came to change television for women forever.

I feel that the power that storytelling has to change people, to bring them together, to have that cathartic sort of experience, is something that definitely has helped my life be worthwhile and better.

In the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], the sister tells my character, "No, don't you want to be with someone?" I think the family - especially in this movie - they know that the reason that Clara doesn't want to have an emotional, intimate relationship is more because she was hurt so badly from heartbreak that she's then being closed off and cynical.