This is a mediatized world and if you are invisible, you are dead. If we have war in Africa, hunger, if we are poor and nobody sees us, we are dead, we don't have any existence. It's very important. Art is not only a mirror that reflects. It's always a kind of resistance, you know, to say something, it's memory.
Every human being needs a memory.
If we build up our memory we can make a choice, try to know where we can go, where we want to go. That's the role of art. Life is very difficult. Film, even a film about very difficult conditions has a beauty, has a lyricism that, if you like, unconsciously suggests reality could be and should be different. That's the message.