As a father, I wanted to make a movie that my kids can love.

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

I can be incredibly angry with someone, I can be incredibly critical, but... I went through a period where I was reading a lot of memoirs of guards in holocausts and serial killers. I like to understand why people do bad things.

People, for reasons of kind of security, they tend to move towards people like themselves.

I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms of one story that could be told purely in a Marxist construction.

I think my movie addresses the struggles of communities facing class distinctions, which are timeless. The questions of how we live together and what we do for money are really the stuff of drama.

My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal.