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Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.

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Andy Garcia
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: April 12
Actor
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Cuba
Andrés Arturo García Menéndez
Andres Arturo Garcia Menendez
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My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.
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I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.
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A lot of things I try to instill in my children comes off of what I've learned from my parents. First of all, you have to lead by example. You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them. So I try to be the best example I can be to them.
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It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.
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My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.
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Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.
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You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.
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If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.
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If you want to experiment, do something temporary.
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I'm not hooked on cognac, but I've enjoyed it over the years.
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I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.
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The size of budgets does not alter my decision if I should do it. If there's a movie with a budget of only $1 million that I find interesting, then I'll sign up, but it has to be in the hands of a director who can do something with it. Ultimately, it's a director's medium.
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I'm a fan of Ernest Hemingway work and specifically The Old Man and the Sea. I researched the relationship he had with the captain of his boat for 20 years, Gregorio Fuentes, and that inspired me to write a screenplay about it.
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I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that's success enough already.
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They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.
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Fidel Castro claimed that history would absolve him, but it can also condemn him.
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I'm not worried about walking the streets and looking over my shoulder because of something I might have said.
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I think good chemistry starts with mutual respect.
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I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.
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I pray for what I have always prayed for: the restoration of our constitution and absolute freedom for the people of Cuba. That dream is very much alive, that fight is very much alive.
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