Quotes

Anyone can shoot a scene but not everyone can tell a story!

No matter how big or short a story might be filmmakers not only have an obligation in telling it properly, but also they need to consider that if one's describing people, then one has to have the respect not to reduce them to one-dimensional characters written on a white piece of paper.

When one creates, one has responsibilities and when one tells a story from that creation, one gains an even bigger responsibility of making a damn good job at it... And I don't find it excusable to slack off.

Films need to be thought, rationalized and emotionalized in equal amounts and carefully planned. There's a distinction between those who make films because they want to be in the entertainment industry and like to watch movies and those who believe in films with all their hearts and are hopelessly, foolishly and desperately in love with them. For those, and to me in particular, making a film is the ultimate utopia. It seems something so important and so grandiose that along the way it's nothing short of impossible. But then you start working and realize that just like any other utopia, what you need is right in front of you. It's the value of reality over the value of dreams. But if one doesn't believe in utopia, one doesn't dream enough to attain the deserved reality.

The perception of the worlds I want to explore changes time and again but my beliefs about story and character are unshakable. I'm fascinated by our three-dimensionality, our ability to be deliciously inconsistent, controversial and infinitely vast. More than deconstructing a story, I want to deconstruct the man that defines it. My narratives always start with a personality trait, a small quirk that makes a character unique, something that makes me want to know more. The story that the character will live comes later. After all, each one of us is at the origin of a story and I see something profoundly organic in creating a narrative from that concept.

We have to know the specificities that constitute the world our characters live in, know how to interpret the sounds, the colors and the type of shots that frame their existence. Without that kind of care, we are neglecting what seems so real in our head and, worse, we are preventing that others have access to our world. In that sense, I believe that all elements that make a film - no matter how long - have to be carefully thought upon and we owe our crew timeless gratitude for their influence in the final product.