Andy Garcia

“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 don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.”

“I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.”

“I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.”

“When you commit to something, you don't want to let your fellow people and yourself down.”

“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.”

“Freedom is not negotiable.”

“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.”

“They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.”

“In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.”

“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'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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them.”

“You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies.”

“My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.”

“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 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.”

“It's impossible for everybody to be in sync, even the most proper family.”