If you're not optimistic on some level, then you've given up.

Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.

The Black Lives Matter movement, the various Occupy movements in Spain and the rest of Europe, in this country, and elsewhere serve as an example of what can be done, and how strong the voices for positive change and truly democratic progress can be.

In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person - it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I'm not putting it down.