“I am actually a 'Seven Samurai' fan.” — Luis Alberto Urrea Quote

I am actually a 'Seven Samurai' fan.

We want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny.

I had not seen lawns till fifth grade - big green lawns.

I have often said I come from a family of unreliable narrators. I tend to believe their struggles with racism, identity, nationality do dovetail with my motivation to write.

I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.

I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps.

The biggest challenge of any cinematographer is making the imagery fit together of a piece: that the whole film has a unity to it, and actually, that a shot doesn't stand out.

Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more than 145 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined, the Amazon's main stem was connected to the Niger River and actually flowed in the opposite direction, toward the Pacific Ocean.

When people come and visit me and have a hat made, it's a little bit like visiting a psychiatrist, but they don't actually realize that.