I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print
Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life.
Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.
The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.
It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as if it was yesterday. Me, I've no idea what I did. It's all a blur, I'm afraid.
Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.
Occasionally I go shopping for clothes, but I find the whole thing a real chore.
I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and [Latino roles] were either nonexistent or written as the maid or a drug dealer. We're no longer just that. I'll play any part that challenges me. What's important is that all races have choices.
The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.
It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.
A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.