We need a lot more positive Latin role models in movies and in television. They exist! It's not fiction.
I'd love to do some period pieces and some historic work; I just feel like no one's tapped into Latin history and Latin contributions to the making of America, and we've been there over 500 years.
All artists draw from their lives, except they mask it and camouflage it... which is the smarter way to do it.
I love the power of theater. I think it's an experience you never forget.
Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.
I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.
I was growing up and maturing at a time where we were invisible, man. We were nowhere except negative. Any time you saw a Latin person in Hollywood or on TV, they were some sort of negative character.
Rehearsals make a huge difference.
Imagine if Lin-Manuel Miranda had tried to do 'Hamilton' first in Hollywood. They would have told him, 'The forefathers weren't Latino or black. They didn't speak in hip hop.' That would never had gotten going in Hollywood ever. But theater let Lin-Manuel him do it, and he created an incredible masterpiece.
He thinks he can use the jail for networking to be somebody. In that way, he's always operating.
Work for work's sake doesn't thrill me, but when I'm in the zone, I'm creative, and the expression is free.
I was always writing. I was writing in high school because it was a really competitive school for class clowns; I used to have to write all of my snaps and my disses the night before and then act like I was making it up the next day.
My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.
We need to stand up and become a united front against a common enemy. It's important for us to not be divided.
Facebook I would've liked, but I made a huge mistake, and I made it a public page, and it didn't work out for me. I just put my name on it, and I didn't know how Facebook worked.
Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk.
If everyone in your class has heroes, and they can relate to them in textbooks and literature, and then you don't see any of your heritage there, you feel less than. And I always wanted to be able to make Latin kids like myself feel more than.
Movies, like old-school TV, are cheesy, corny. Movies are not exciting anymore. They're not cutting edge.
You think you've done it all, and then you realize, 'No, there's so much more to do.'
Why is the world that I see around me mixed, and why is the world I see in movies filled with all white people? Why does it have to be like that?
