As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.

My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee in Albania.

I'm thinking like the character in order to be as authentic as I can. But after a while, how would I be able to cleanse myself from this unless I do something that's a different medium but also creative. That's what I do. It's my little ritual. After every filming, I just write a poem about it and my character specifically and I can let her go.

I feel every medium of art needs to heal to some degree. It can't live in it's own void, and this came from my earliest experiences as a young refugee.

I've been to Asia, but I'd love to go to Thailand. I'd love to go to some rural areas in China.

I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now.

There's a condensed softness about the Albanian people, and I've witnessed examples of their hospitality.