Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your people, and comedy is almost like a medicine to your soul in a way.

My tendency in life is to like movies that deal with heavy stuff, but it's my nature.

You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

I very much want to do things my way, and I want to control the result.

My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I?' 'Who do I belong to?' But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I'd better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another.