Every time, I try to make something different.

Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?

I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television.

Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

The future belongs to believers.

Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.

With the tiger you're always on edge, and you always have to keep your distance. The monkey is far less threatening so you're more relaxed around the monkey, and I think that's actually hazardous.

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly well." All the true greats have been masters at it.

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost always get God's attention.

I don't get to be edgy and angry, but the rewards are that I'm generally quite happy with my day. I spend an awful lot of time in a good mood.

I think one lesson we have to learn is that there's a lot more risk than we're giving credit to, a lot more what economist calls systematic risk.

I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralizing.