I wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good.

The kind of love that these young men have and the respect that they have for their fathers, I don't see that as much in America as you see in the Latino community, and it's really something to behold.

Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.

You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.

Sometimes we worry about the things that you know that matter the least and don't focus on the things that matter the most.

We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.

I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk - my money, my house - to make a movie.