In the Bakersfield Runner, Moctesuma Esparza on his life in film.

“The second most important influence in my life was Fernando Flores,” Esparza said. “He focused on the work of Heidegger…[who] had one idea. That language creates reality. What you say, what you think, what you listen to creates your individual reality, and creates our group reality and it literally creates the reality that we all live in together.”