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

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

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 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.

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.

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.