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.

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

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.

This is what art can do in our time. Unite people, and give them hope.

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

Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.

I like movies that deal with trapped men. Men that need to make choices that are not obvious or easy choices. Then how do you visualize this? You create this character conflicted between two sides, because drama is about the conflict of two things, between your duty and your will, between what you want and what you can't have. It is all conflict between two things, and this is why you put your character in a place where you can visualize the conflict.