Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.

I think you get to see, through the different cult members, why people are attracted to a group like this. Everyone is there for a different reason and from a different background. That was part of what was interesting for us, in researching cults and exploring it. A lot of this happens in California.

People go to the cinema to be moved; they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.

Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than they would have grown on their own.

I think we're in this exciting moment of Internet streaming storytelling, and it's anybody's guess what that is or what it means. It can take on any form. That's what's so exciting about the time we're in; these filmmakers are coming in and letting the story tell itself as it wants to be told.

So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

It doesn't happen all the time, but in the moments where you really lose yourself and you fall into this character, it's like time travel.