Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.

Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.

Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you.

The last adventure left on this planet is creativity because we've been everywhere. There's not much left to explore. But there's a lot of exploration left in the human imagination.

The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.

It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.

So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.