I'm from Spain, and in Spain, things in the '80s after the dictatorship, it was like a big explosion of freedom.

We know how difficult it is to do something that works and that you feel proud of. When it happens, it's like a miracle.

It's very important to be as transparent, as real as possible, as a person.

In the end, I would love [the audience] to be more open to the understanding of different types of personalities, you know?

Sometimes we don't want to accept who we really are, and we lie to each other, to ourselves.

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

I think people in my district expect me to work with the president. It doesn't mean we have to agree all the time. I don't feel any extra pressure.

The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it.

Real life is crazier than fiction.

Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.

I'm a performer. We don't retire.

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

I like films that go a little more daring visually, and story-based stuff that usually reflects pretty closely to what real life is.