In Cuba and specifically in Havana there's a sort of energy that turns every situation into something unexpected.

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

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

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.

In Cuba and specifically in Havana there's a sort of energy that turns every situation into something unexpected.

Cuban public is special - they participate, generate a lot of energy, both in a positive and negative sense. It's always an expressive audience.