Andy Garcia Quotes

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

There's good movies and there's bad movies. The genres are never dead, it's just about how to apply them and articulate them and execute them - the story, the quality of the writing, the acting, the design elements, the directorial execution - all these things make it what it is.

My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.

I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen.

I go where I'm stimulated. If I'm stimulated, I show up. As Mick Jagger sings: It's my life and I'll do what I want.

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.

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.

Every family is dysfunctional.

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.

I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.

I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

Everybody has a dream, and everybody knows people who have a dream that they don't want to share with anybody because they're too embarrassed to share.

When you commit to something, you don't want to let your fellow people and yourself down.

When you explore a scene, the most important thing is who to cast.

You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.

I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.

Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.

It's important, when going after a goal, to never lose sight of the integrity of the journey.

I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.

A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.

I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it's the appeal of the simplest of dishes - things you've grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory - something that not only affects your taste buds but that you've got an emotional attachment to.

I think good chemistry starts with mutual respect.

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.

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

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.

It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.

I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.

It depends. When it's the right scenario, it's just as stimulating and just as exciting for me. It's just a question of finding a piece of material that lights a fire under you.

Pictures make a lot of money doesn't determine whether the experience was ...

Freedom is not negotiable.