Leave It To The Catholics To Destroy

My Mother Was Devoted To Helping People - With My Father's Money! - Who Had Great Voices But Didn't Have The Financial Means To Study Music. He And My Mum Gave Away Dozens Of Music Scholarships, And My Mum Opened A School In Town, Introduced Opera To Children And Created Fantastic Programmes.

They Offered Me That Film Before I Did Frida And I Said, No, I'm Not Capable Of Directing. Then After Seeing Julie Direct, I Was Inspired By It. She Motivated Me To Do It, Because We Don't Have Role Models As Woman For Directors.

I Said, 'i'm Going To The United States To Study With Stella Adler And Do Movies Because Nobody Here Has Done It And My Passion Is Films.' But I Came Here And I Didn't Speak English, I Didn't Have A Green Card, I Didn't Know I Had To Have An Agent, I Couldn't Drive, I Was Dyslexic.

Life Is Tough; And If You Have The Ability To Laugh At It, You Have The Ability To Enjoy It.

They Thought I Was Crazy In Mexico When I Said, 'i'm Going To Hollywood.' Nobody Thought I Could Make It.