I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

...you have to understand that motherhood has to be your priority. It's important work.

If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.

There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.

I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.