Karla Souza

I told my friend - we were working on a movie together - and he gave me a script and asked me…

— Karla Souza

Wisdom and white hair might not be as valued [in our society] as in different cultures.

— Karla Souza

Mexican food is one of the best culinary experiences that people can have.

— Karla Souza

There's a lot of lies out there that we should catch and that have taken me a lot of time to sort…

— Karla Souza

There's a lot of things, even the landscape that we show in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] of Ensenada in Baja is…

— Karla Souza

I think it's not an easy task because there's not enough Latino writers that are being given opportunities to write things -…

— Karla Souza

[Everybody Loves Somebody] one really loves both cultures, represents them in a very accurate, genuine, authentic, fun, fresh way, and it includes…

— Karla Souza

Family is something that I grew up with, and the Mexican culture has a lot of, you know - Sunday is the…

— Karla Souza

All the products that are sold to us - those anti-aging products - are telling us that there's a due date.

— Karla Souza

The patriarchal society has made women believe, first of all, you're only valid and valuable when you're young.

— Karla Souza

I think that, for sure, we as women should try and realize that it's more about having someone to share.

— Karla Souza

I hope that we start trendsetting [with Everybody Loves Somebody], you know, like having bigger movies also include that. Because I think…

— Karla Souza

In the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], the sister tells my character, "No, don't you want to be with someone?" I think the…

— Karla Souza

I think Shonda Rhimes came to change television for women forever.

— Karla Souza

["When are you getting married" in Everybody Loves Somebody] is funny because it's put on by women and men. Society makes women…

— Karla Souza

What I do feel with the different scripts that they give me where I feel like this is done for one of…

— Karla Souza

The music in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is very much hand-picked specifically because it's our history and our traditions. The themes…

— Karla Souza

Sadly - and I think this is why it's so important that we do this more - I don't have that guiding…

— Karla Souza

I felt really strongly about this script [ Everybody Loves Somebody] because, like you said, it's a very specific way of life.

— Karla Souza

I also really pay attention to whether the script embodies a full female character or if they're just wanting a two-dimensional objectified…

— Karla Souza

People follow my movies for a reason, and that's because I believe in them, and I don't want to just make movies…

— Karla Souza

When I was asked to change Laurel into a Latina for How to Get Away with Murder, I was terrified, because I…

— Karla Souza

[Everybody Loves Somebody] was a different take on that immigrant sort of life.

— Karla Souza

[Producers] promised me they wouldn't do that sort of "defining nature of my character is that Laurel is Latina [in How to…

— Karla Souza

I knew that [director/screenwriter] Catalina Aguilar Mastretta had an amazing take on the female psyche and the modern woman and the modern…

— Karla Souza