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I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.

Feature film can have a major role in explaining ideas and describing peoples' lives and their struggles.

I like making films about different cultures. I'm interested in things that I've never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience's position.

It's always more interesting to make a movie about what is relevant in your society. What's the political global backdrop? What are our threats? What are we vulnerable to? Because that's what an audience vibes on - that is what people are interested in, universally.

Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.