I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then lite

