There is no border in my films. You can see yourself in these stories. This is the greatest thing about the power of cinema. It's very present. It's all there. You can't escape it. — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
I'm not hoping to see that day but I know that my cinema will reach Filipinos. I know that they will embrace it one… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
I make films, and festivals, museums, and academia are embracing the work. It will be heard. It's bound to happen because cinema is universal.… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
There is no border in my films. You can see yourself in these stories. This is the greatest thing about the power of cinema.… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
"Filipino" is the Spanish side of our history. The islands were named after King Felipe, so we became known as Filipinos. It's a brand,… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
I'm very fatalistic about life. Whatever happens, happens. The imperative for me is that I do my contribution for my people, for my culture.… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the cultural thing - music, then eventually cinema. I think it's part of my struggle as a cultural worker. I'm not… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
When I was trying to create this so-called Lav Diaz verité, it just happened. At some point, I became very comfortable with the one… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
Even if I made pornography, the trauma would show, though. It will always be there because it's my verité. It's my kind of narrative,… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
The novelistic attribute of my work is very much like the Russian way of creating novels. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky - their work has so many… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
There is no border. I'm branding my films as Malay cinema, but it's just about cinema. Everything that I make is about humanity's struggle,… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
Cinema is the greatest mirror of humanity's struggle. You see this alternative world, but you're part of it. Everybody is part of it. This… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
I can easily go to America, or I can easily escape to some places in Europe with friends. But the place for me is… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
