A biography for Andy Garciahasn’t been written yet.
“Every family is dysfunctional.”
“My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.”
“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.”
“I wish we didn't have to tell this story.”
“I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.”
“It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.”
“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.”
“If you want to experiment, do something temporary.”
“If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.”
“When you explore a scene, the most important thing is who to cast.”
“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.”
“The reality is that the work I do is not private work. I bring all my secrets, my life, to my work. Anybody who's seen my work knows everything about me.”
“I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it's the appeal of the simplest of dishes - things you've grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory - something that not only affects your taste buds but that you've got an emotional attachment to.”
“I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.”
“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.”
“I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.”
“Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.”