There just aren't enough positive portrayals of Latino life in film.
It's really tough to be a Mexican on 'Breaking Bad.'
I was raised Catholic, and I remember in all the pamphlets and pictures we'd look at, Jesus was basically blonde with blue eyes. He kind of looked like Jared Leto.
I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with as much dignity and integrity as I can muster.
I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed.
Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.
I use non-fiction work written by Whites in my research. It's indispensable. That wasn't the problem. I said that "The Wire" was a cliché! It's like my writing a series about Jewish life and casting all of the characters as inside traders.
Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature.
You have to be delicate with how you can portray characters other people are having a worship over.
