In all of my movies I've tried to address the need for man - not just Cubans - to have a dream and to fight for that dream, even when he doesn't achieve it. It's a form of happiness.

In Cuba and specifically in Havana there's a sort of energy that turns every situation into something unexpected.

Trips are part of humanity. Emigration is a part of humanity. And it's ever more dynamic due to globalization.

I don't think that the reality of Cuba is perfect, but it doesn't cleave to the negativity, either, with which some people see it.

Cuban public is special - they participate, generate a lot of energy, both in a positive and negative sense. It's always an expressive audience.

I think that this necessity to travel, to see, it's part of human nature.

The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.

What is happiness to me is not necessarily for you. Someone once said, there are three truths: your truth, my truth and the truth. And I think that's true.

It's true that in Cuba there are double standards, there's opportunism, and there is a lack of freedom in some ways.

The magic of film isn't just because of the big screen, or the acoustics, but the ineffable shared experience of going to the movies.

The Cuban public is hugely cinephile. It's a shame that most of the movie theaters are so deteriorated. The sense of spectacle has been lost a little, but even so, people continue to go.

In the wilderness, God performs His mighty miracles.

Believe in yourself and power of your dreams.

As when we can recall so vividlyWe almost touch, Or think of all the gestures that we failedTo make.

A particular variety of loneliness, like peering deep into the darkness. It's only natural, when two separate universes touch.

Every snowflake is unique, yet they are each perfect.

Winston [Churchill] is the only remaining specimen of a real Tory.

Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification. xxxxx Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes

Today, imagine all the love flowing from your heart to all the people who need your love.

I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.

My friend told me he was going to a fancy-dress party as an Italian island. I said: 'Don’t be Sicily’.