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."

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.

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

I think that, for sure, we as women should try and realize that it's more about having someone to share.

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.

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

[Everybody Loves Somebody] was a different take on that immigrant sort of life.