I don't tend to spend the whole day in the personality of the person I'm playing.
The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.
Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
In literature, you know only what you imagine
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.
For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.
Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character.
God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
Women make up half our workforce and this has an impact at home on spouses and children. This means the workplace must change because women - who have historically been the primary caregivers at home - are now fully in the workforce and here to stay.
I love a guy in a suit - someone who puts on his nice Armani pants.