We have to accept the world has become this place where we have to interact with people who are very different from us.

I'm a terrible dancer.

It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.

'Abel' is about the father I don't want to be and the boy I used to be.

It's tough to say where I live. There are some bills that get to the house in L.A., some to the house in Mexico, and some to the house of my father - so I never lose track of those.

In film, normally what happens is that not many people work more than once. Normally, it breaks couples. It doesn't make them.

There's a reality that the market is changing, and the stories of the Latino community need to be out because there's a huge audience in need of films that would represent them.

Mexico is where I fell in love for the first time; it's where my family lives... so however much I travel, I inevitably return there.

Directors should be paid for promising impossible things.

Film can be a tool for change; it can start a debate.