"I want to work with people I love," Longoria told People.com at the Cannes Film Festival, naming friends and fellow actresses Kerry Washington and Gabrielle Union with whom she has upcoming projects.

She added, "Life's too short to work with ------, and I'd rather be surrounded by people I love and creative people I respect." Next "reverse engineering."

The actress first considers who she wants to collaborate with, and then looks for projects that will work best for everyone involved.

“More than the Actua project, it's the people and their perspective and what they bring to it” that will bring them to the set.

Longoria has a list of directors and producers she would love to collaborate with.

As for her creative process, Longoria says she will "develop projects around that idea" and eventually they will collaborate on something together.

"Like, 'Okay, if I want to work with Carmen Maura, what would be a good medium for that?' " He said.