What is happiness to me is not necessarily for you. Someone once said, there are three truths: your truth, my truth and the truth. And I think that's true.

In all of my movies I've tried to address the need for man - not just Cubans - to have a dream and to fight for that dream, even when he doesn't achieve it. It's a form of happiness.

Trips are part of humanity. Emigration is a part of humanity. And it's ever more dynamic due to globalization.

I don't think that the reality of Cuba is perfect, but it doesn't cleave to the negativity, either, with which some people see it.

I think that this necessity to travel, to see, it's part of human nature.

Cubans joke and satirize everything that life gives them, and I think that's a positive characteristic.

The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.