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I truly believe in cinema's potential for cultural impact. I have a clear idea what I want to do - to enrich people's lives.

When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.

It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

I'm a student of cinema in general, not just of one particular genre. So it was very important to me and to my soul to go out and do something different.

The big thing for me is to make films that you feel, whether you feel happy, whether you feel sad, whether you feel sick; it's to make the audience feel so that the next day they remember what they saw.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.

I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much.