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.Quote by Andy Garcia about film, things, contentment
Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.Quote by Andy Garcia about children, sensibility, contentment
Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.Quote by Andy Garcia about opinion, change, moment, life
I approach my work musically a lot in terms of the way maybe a jazz musician would approach an improvisation on a theme.Quote by Andy Garcia about film, work
I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.Quote by Andy Garcia about film
I still have a leather jacket my brother wore in the '60s. It doesn't fit me, but I figure maybe it'll fit my daughter.Quote by Andy Garcia about attitude
I'm attracted to classical things, not fads. I'm sure everybody has a'70s photograph of himself with a velvet lapel and a wide tie. But I like pieces that have age to them.Quote by Andy Garcia about age, olderness, things
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.Quote by Andy Garcia about film, people
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.Quote by Andy Garcia about children, life
It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.Quote by Andy Garcia about work, contentment
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.Quote by Andy Garcia about film, end, people
My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.Quote by Andy Garcia about opinion, theatre, interest, music
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.Quote by Andy Garcia about parents, work, time, contentment
My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.Quote by Andy Garcia about family
They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.Quote by Andy Garcia about humor
We didn't bring much out of Cuba. On the way to the airport they searched you and took everything, and then they put you on a plane.Quote by Andy Garcia about truth, contentment
You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.Quote by Andy Garcia about film, criminals, contentment, love