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"I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her."

"Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more."

"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."

"So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years."

"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."

"There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival."

"I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times."

"I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it."

"My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet."
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