The casting is very simple actually, but it is very important. You choose the best actor for the role, and you test them and you test them, and you bring them back, and you have to make sure the actors fit the roles.

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.

Most of us want to live in harmony and peace and be good to others. Right now, however, the world is in a very turbulent time, and our leadership has gone crazy.

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.

As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.

When I was younger, I did dark movies. It was a reflection of what I saw around me.

Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.