I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.