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.

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

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

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

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.

It's true that in Cuba there are double standards, there's opportunism, and there is a lack of freedom in some ways.

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.