I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.
After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.
My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

