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.

When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.

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

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.

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

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.