Zitat des Tages von Andy Garcia:
I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.
Freedom is not negotiable.
I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.
I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.
Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.
You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.
Everybody has a dream, and everybody knows people who have a dream that they don't want to share with anybody because they're too embarrassed to share.
She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in her current state. It's the point of view of all exiles - you have to leave the thing you cherish most.
My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.
Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.
My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.
Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.
I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.
They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.
My son loves my carbonara. I've tried to master that recipe - it's very simple but very delicate. Once prepared it must be eaten quickly.
I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen.
I wish we didn't have to tell this story.
When you explore a scene, the most important thing is who to cast.
If you want to experiment, do something temporary.
Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.
I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a responsibility to those who came before me.
There's good movies and there's bad movies. The genres are never dead, it's just about how to apply them and articulate them and execute them - the story, the quality of the writing, the acting, the design elements, the directorial execution - all these things make it what it is.
You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies.
I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that's success enough already.