In 1958, I was shooting a movie in Florida, and I decided to go to Havana, Cuba, to see what it was like.
It didn't get any more glamorous than Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s. I used to go there when I was a waiter on a cruise ship.
If they opened things up and I could build a luxury condominium in Vedado, I would sell them in two hours here in Miami. Cubans in Miami would be the first to buy. In Miami, 80 percent of the people we sell to are foreigners. Havana is a city very similar to Miami... There's good music, good theater, good ballet.
I'd like to go to Cuba.
I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.
One of my favorite places I've visited is Havana, Cuba. On my way home from Costa Rica, I did a week in Havana. The colors, the music, the beautiful men and the cars! I love vintage and antique cars and own a couple myself.
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
I always wanted to go to Cuba growing up. It was this fascinating, forbidden country that seemed to have a lot of politics and folklore and history behind it.
Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world.
Havana is a uniquely complicated city and contains a great many histories.
Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.
