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.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

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

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.

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.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.