I was lucky that audiences in Mexico liked my work. I was even luckier when I got to do movies and plays with my brothers.
I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.
I can't say I was like a die-hard zombie fan, but I've definitely seen a few different zombie movies and TV shows.
Woody Allen movies notwithstanding, therapy, in the early eighties, was not exactly a hot conversation starter. Nor was it a favoured activity for dysfunctional couples or suffering individuals.
I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.
Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.
That TV show, 'After Thought,' is really exciting. It's a cross between 'Inception' and 'CSI' that I'm working on with Melissa Rosenberg from the 'Twilight' movies.
I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.
I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.
Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.
Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype? Characters are stereotypes when making plans or without shades. I do not believe in the picture or model established in the movies.
Some disaster movies look like you're watching someone else play video games. They're fun but it's not real.
I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real.
Because I was a champion swimmer in Canada, they're always trying to get me in the water in movies! I've drawn the line now with this film. No more water!
I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.
Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.
I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it.
My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with black actors in mind.
I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
