I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.

When I was a young actor, I just didn’t understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a business, it’s called the film business for a reason, there’s money involved ... But on the flip side, now I do not let the business side of it rule either. It’s a balance.

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.

It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.

We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain experiences with other people, and sometimes they have very different takes on what happened.