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. That's my work. Everybody has to deal with life. I have to shoot life, but I always have a message to give to my people.