I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

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.

I hear music as narrative.

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.