I've been transformed by stories, and I think that storytelling is definitely sacred. I take it very seriously because my life has been changed, whether it was a movie, a play, a piece of writing, poetry, a painting.

Family is something that I grew up with, and the Mexican culture has a lot of, you know - Sunday is the day you spend with your family, and you have 40 to 50 people at your house, the uncles and the cousins, and I grew up with that.

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

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

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

Sadly - and I think this is why it's so important that we do this more - I don't have that guiding light. You know, "Oh, that Sleepless in Seattle bilingual something," like, it doesn't exist. I don't have it in my memory, and that's why I thought it was important to make it.

There's not enough of those inclusive projects where I feel like I'm interpreting a human being and not just a statistic or a nationality.