"Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised."

"I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking."

"I give 110% while I am working. I know I do, because I have been doing this since I was nine. This is a way of life for me. So whether it be successful or not is not in my hands. I still do my job, the best I can."

"I'm always trying to push for women's rights."

"Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time."

"I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long."

"Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity."

"If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here."