When you are passionate about life, it keeps you young. Sometimes I wake up at 4:00 am just to see how my roses look.

I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when i first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

It doesnt matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith.

Leave it to the Catholics to destroy existence.

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

When I'm doing a movie, that's when I relax. As stressful as it can be, as much pressure as it should be, making movies is still the place where I feel the most at ease and I truly enjoy it. That's why I make so many.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.