Eugenio Derbez Quotes

Audiences are more drawn in to what they can relate to, so it would be stupid not to have great Latino films for the Latino audience.

I always say that when I first started, my videos were very veered towards Indian people.

The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'

In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

Latinos don't go out and support their own films, but at the same time, it's not their responsibility.

It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.

The black community wants to buy things and want to see themselves portrayed in a certain way. And if they don't like what they see, then they won't spend their money. Everyone's not gonna always relate to Captain America; everyone is not going to always relate to Thor. A lot of characters just don't speak to them.

I'm looking forward to it, to be able to represent the black culture... but I'm doing my best at managing it, keeping it behind me, and that's the best thing I can do.

When I used to watch Westerns, I could admire the craft, but I never really loved them; they never spoke to me. Maybe because I'm first-generation American, I'm a woman, and I just didn't see myself reflected.

I personally am going to look for stuff that interests me and either has very little to do or has the right thing to do with my ethnicity.

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

Mainstream media has convinced people that black people aren't relatable. So when a Jewish person comes up to me and is all, 'Oh man, I love that one scene from Episode 3, I watch it over and over again,' I'm so happy. Because that's what I want.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.

I know I'm representing the Library of Congress, all the people of the United States and, of course, the Latinos and Latinas as well.

I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.

I love bringing the colors and textures of other cultures. If I wear a dress that I bought from a street vendor in Bali on a red carpet, it's a way of bringing my travels with me.

China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.

I try to study the background of the country I am in and what were my hits there, so I can at least give them some of what they want. It's like a wedding - give them something old, something new, something borrowed and definitely something blue!

Without knowing the language of a people, we never really know their thoughts, their feelings, and their type of character.

The audiences for some of many of our greatest cultural events—I’m thinking particularly of the Proms [traditional patriotic promenade concerts]—is still a long way from demonstrating that people from different backgrounds feel at ease in being part of this. I know this is not about making every audience completely representative, but if we claim great things for our sectors in terms of their power to bring people together, then we have a right to expect they will do that wherever they can.

I grew up watching cinema in my country that wasn't telling stories about us, and we had to find a way to connect, and our references, our role models had nothing to do with us. And I'm so glad that it's changing.

I was very sure I did not want to be the stereotype of what Indian people are seen as, which is Bollywood and henna. That's all great! It's what we are, and I love it. I love saris; I love music. I love henna; I love dancing, but that's not all we are.