I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn’t mean that I’m a Latin vamp.
I directed a movie and now, I’m going to do the editing.
It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you’ve been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
If I go on a diet and work out, I’m always in a bad mood. I’d rather be a little heavier but nice.
No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.
How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.
There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.
The truth is, I just don’t have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.
I believe that change keeps you young.
I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
I’m a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.
I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.
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