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"A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it."
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"I always want to rock."
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"We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing."
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"All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels."
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"I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me."
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"I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me."
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"What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts."
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"Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it."
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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"You can tell by looking at me that I've got more miles behind me than I've got in front of me. When you reach that point, if you've got some good years left, you want to make sure that you use them wisely."
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"She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in her current state. It's the point of view of all exiles - you have to leave the thing you cherish most."
Love
"I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen."
Care
"It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in."
Work
"Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself."
Children
"Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are."
Movies
"I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that's success enough already."
Success
"I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life."
Life
"My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked."
Time
"My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre."
Music
"You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him."
Love
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