The casting is very simple actually, but it is very important. You choose the best actor for the role, and you test them and you test them, and you bring them back, and you have to make sure the actors fit the roles.

A movie should entertain you in a way that will also open your mind. I think movies are tools to enrich your experience.

As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.

I don't read the news anymore because I know it would make me depressed. So instead, I make beauty. I make movies.

As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog.

Filmmaking in general is about feeling and not about theory. You need to know a lot of rules about filmmaking: character development, grammar, and all these thing, but then you use it instinctively. I ask myself this question all the time. I have no solid theory, I just do what I feel is right.

I feel like my job is to give hope. The world is in a dark place and we are living in somewhat of a nightmare. So I want to make films to give hope.