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I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.

Overseas directors who want to work in Hollywood, the language barrier is not a problem. With the right talent, any director can be successful.

I think the reason why a lot of the Spanish films do so well, and are so well done, is because the public really respects it and wants it.

Hollywood don't always pay a lot of money. Because we're English they think we're cheap!

I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either.

There just aren't enough positive portrayals of Latino life in film.

Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves.

I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.

When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but the market has been reduced, unfortunately, and you know that when you're making a foreign language film, you're making a choice.