A biography for Julio Torreshasn’t been written yet.
“Childhood was definitely my most formative time in terms of my creative self. My adolescence was very much the dark years. I don't think any productive thought came about during my adolescence.”
“I'm very stimulated by people like that, and I feel like I collect different parts of them. I've always found it very difficult to just say something is 'not my problem' or 'that person's crazy.' I'm always trying to examine why a person is behaving in a certain way.”
“Both of my parents have a really sharp eye for reading people through their homes. Reading people through the kind of person that they are based on the kind of furniture that they have. The kind of remodel they want.”
“I really loved 'Late Night With Conan O'Brien.' That was very informative to me. I love that it was in conversation with his more mainstream peers and subverted it. It felt funny for the sake of funny and very stupid and ridiculous and unburdened.”
“Problemista' is not meant to be a global thesis on immigration. It is not a documentary about policy. Rather, the movie came from a very specific point of view about the choices we make and what motivates us.”
“I am an anxious person! I am clinically diagnosed as one. But people's perception of me or my work doesn't make me anxious.”
“I obviously love blue hair, but it's not my favorite hair color. It's a bit of a nightmare to maintain.”
“I wasn't even an angsty teen-ager - I was a patient one.”
“I wanted to write for TV and I wanted to write for film. But I had no idea how to do any of those things after I graduated so I started doing stand-up as a means of writing, and exposing what I write.”
“I'm very seduced by the idea of the future being a destination.”
“There is a childlike wonder in my work. Even 'Los Espookys' is like a live-action cartoon. There's something untethered and free that I'm attracted to, and really lends itself for work for children.”
“I've always liked objects. They've been funny and stimulating to me.”
“Enough is enough with the greed - thank you.”
“The idea of artist as persona is something that I'm attracted to, so obviously Klaus Nomi is the leader of it.”
“I think I'm relentlessly optimistic. That's my way of willing something to be good.”
“I never, never want to claim to speak for anybody else's experience. I am not here representing immigrants. I am not here representing Salvadorians or Hispanics or gay people. I can only share what's in me and that may or may not ring true with people, but I have never wanted to use any of those things as a calling card.”
“I don't do Christmas, and I don't like weddings. I'm never like, 'I have to find a gift for this person.' It's usually more spontaneous than that. I love giving gifts. I don't like traditions.”
“I do like toilets as concepts. Being a toilet is a job that's inherently demeaning, so humanising that is exciting to me.”
“Some of us who were worlds unto ourselves gravitated toward one another.”
“I don't like weddings. I don't like ceremonies, and I show up wearing whatever the hell I want, if I go at all.”