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To me, a big crossover was what happened to me years ago, like bringing my music in Spanish to Europe, or Asia. To me, that's a crossover because Spanish is not a language that everybody talks.

I'm all about the crossover. The role doesn't necessarily have to be white or Latina or black. It could be anything. But it's hard in Hollywood, because sometimes it's all about the box office. Or all about looks and things like that. It's not about the story that they have to tell.

It's usually human drama that carries with it issues of race or class that attracts me. That was certainly the case with 'No Crossover.'

I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason.

Think of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.' It is equally intoxicating for children and adults. All this 'crossover' talk is something publishers are using as a selling device - a kind of post hoc rationalisation of what was happening already.

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

There are only so many hilarious actors so when they cross-pollinate, people assume it's always the same actors and directors.

Actors are separated all the time.

When you put a group of actors together who get along, and we have since day one, they don't become like their roles. What tends to happen is their age disappears and they all deal with each other as friends.

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.