Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.