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.

The Cuban public is hugely cinephile. It's a shame that most of the movie theaters are so deteriorated. The sense of spectacle has been lost a little, but even so, people continue to go.

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

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

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

The magic of film isn't just because of the big screen, or the acoustics, but the ineffable shared experience of going to the movies.

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