Top 4 Luis Santeiro Quotes

The teenagers have been sucked into American culture overnight, while their parents are concerned with preserving roots.

We went to the visual and the acting. You would lose some jokes if you didn’t speak both languages, but you didn’t lose the thrust.

We would get letters from Nebraska. I’ve talked to Latin Americans, whether they’re from Colombia [or elsewhere], and they have somebody like that in their family…If you make it authentic, if it touches you, it doesn’t have to be your experience.

I was living in Miami. Some people would say, ‘You were very young when you came from Cuba. How did you know us?’ They think I’m portraying Cuba, I said, ‘No, I’m portraying Miami. I’m portraying what I saw in Miami.’